Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes

Guerrina, Roberta; Chappell, Laura; Wright, Katharine A. M.

doi:10.1111/jcms.12705

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“…What this analysis finds is that although the EU claims to be a normative gender actor, as outlined in its use of equality as a foundational myth (Guerrina et al 2018;Guerrina & Wright, 2016), it is actually a gendered normative actor, meaning that it strategically co-opts gender narratives to promote the interests of the organisation. Hence this reflects the gender regime found in other areas of the EU.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Understanding the gender regime in the European External Action Service

Chappell¹,

Guerrina²

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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The EU has been a key actor in shaping European gender regimes in post-war Europe. There is a substantial amount of work on the role of the EU as a gender actor, particularly in employment and social policy. The adoption of and consistent referral to equality as a fundamental value of the EU raises important questions about the way the EU promotes ‘soft’ values in an international setting, through its security and defence policy, particularly as the EU is trying to promote itself as a normative actor. Hence, this article sets out to analyse where gender equality, as a policy frame, is located within the European External Action Service (EEAS). Through an investigation into whether the core normative principles of gender equality and mainstreaming have permeated this policy domain, we then focus on how the EEAS reflects the EU’s gender regime, which is informed by Walby’s framework, and how this shapes mainstream security and defence policies. We find that the neo-liberal foundations of the EU permeate the way the EEAS incorporates the principle of equality, leading to a shallow understanding that focuses on adding women into existing structures.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…What this means is that gender appears as a set of specific recommendations on WPS, gender equality and/or women's empowerment, but has not yet been mainstreamed to all areas of foreign policy, security and defence. (Guerrina et al, 2018).…”

Section: Work On Normative Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the gender regime in the European External Action Service

Chappell¹,

Guerrina²

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…A number of reasons can be identified for this dissonance between rhetoric and practice, including the complexity of institutional structures and lack of clarity about institutional competence (Ansorg and Haastrup, 2018). It can also be attributed to the absence of an effective feminist 'velvet' triangle to work as an external and internal coalition, composed of bureaucrats, civil society and epistemic communities, to push for the inclusion of gender in policy (Guerrina et al, 2018a;Guerrina and Wright, 2016;Woodward, 2004Woodward, , 2015. This inertia could also be the result of member states 'institution shopping' and focusing their efforts on NATO's engagement with the Women, Peace and Security agenda (Wright, 2016).…”

Section: Gendering Normative Power Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations

Wright

Guerrina

2020

Political Studies Review

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The European Union has historically sought to project outwards its identity, values and raison d’être during times of uncertainty and crisis. One of the core values stated to be at the heart of the European Union’s identity is gender equality. Yet, while gender equality features more visibly in the European Union’s external discourse as it seeks to position itself as a global leader in equality and human rights, the internal challenge posed by crisis presents a real obstacle to future developments in this area. This article examines digital diplomacy, specifically Twitter presence, as a discursive site for constituting meaning. We thus take the digital space afforded by Twitter as a site where the European Union’s internal and external identity is constructed in a process of articulation and contestation. Digital diplomacy is now a salient part of public diplomacy, increasingly prioritised over ‘traditional’ approaches. Using data gathered from Twitter on the European Union’s 60th anniversary and International Women’s Day in 2017, this article provides the first in-depth study of the European Union’s approach to digital diplomacy. We find the marginalisation of gender issues from the European Union’s core narratives bringing into question the place of gender equality as a core value of the European Union.

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“…Some scholars argue that NATO has made more significant progress in integrating gender in security and defence than the European Union (EU) (Guerrina et al 2018). Emerging research shows that the EU, despite claiming to be a normative power in gender equality issues, is lagging behind in mainstreaming gender beyond employment and social affairs into its external relations (Guerrina et al 2018;Guerrina -Wright 2016). Guerrina and Wright (2016: 309) attribute this situation to the lack of a clear EU external identity, and to the fact that the EEAS is still in its infancy.…”

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The Women, Peace and Security Agenda

O’Sullivan¹

2019

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The adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (WPS) in 2000 has prompted the development of an extensive WPS scholarship within the field of feminist International Relations. The dynamic scholarly debate is characterised by certain tensions between two feminist groups -the radical revolutionary one which advocates a redefinition of the global order and is more sceptical of the agenda, and the pragmatist one accentuating the compromise towards the existing peace and security governance. This article explores the two main subjects of the WPS research -the discourse and implementation, as they have been informed by the revolutionary and pragmatist approaches. The article shows that while the academic inquiries into the WPS discourse reveal disappointment with the compromises made regarding the revolutionary vision, this disappointment is also present in the literature on implementation. The latter literature nonetheless acknowledges feminist pragmatism as a way forward given the realities on the ground.

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Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes

Cited by 23 publications

References 41 publications

Understanding the gender regime in the European External Action Service

Understanding the gender regime in the European External Action Service

Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations

The Women, Peace and Security Agenda

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