Understanding the European Union as a Global Gender Actor: The Holistic Intersectional and Inclusive Study of Gender+ in External Actions

Debusscher, Petra; Manners, Ian

doi:10.1177/1478929919899345

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“…It is in that context that we should interpret emerging trends, including a nascent 'gender+' equality agenda which aims to tackle inequalities, including gender, in a more intersectional manner (Debusscher and Manners, 2020). Their ability to reduce gender inequalities remains an open question in light of the enduring genderedness of EU institutions and processes (Guerrina, 2020).…”

Section: Eu and Multi-level Policy Design: From Hard To Soft Equality...mentioning

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Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe

Cairney

Keating

Kippin

et al. 2022

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There is a broad consensus across European states and the EU that social and economic inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed. Yet inequality policy is notoriously complex and contested. This book approaches the issue from two linked perspectives. First, a focus on functional requirements highlights what policymakers think they need to deliver policy successfully, and the gap between their requirements and reality. We identify this gap in relation to the theory and practice of policy learning, and to multiple sectors, to show how it manifests in health, education, and gender equity policies. Second, a focus on territorial politics highlights how the problem is interpreted at different scales, subject to competing demands to take responsibility. This contestation and spread of responsibilities contributes to different policy approaches across spatial scales. We conclude that governments promote many separate equity initiatives, across territories and sectors, without knowing if they are complementary or contradictory. This outcome could reflect the fact that ambiguous policy problems and complex policymaking processes are beyond the full knowledge or control of governments. It could also be part of a strategy to make a rhetorically radical case while knowing that they will translate into safer policies. It allows them to replace debates on values, regarding whose definition of equity matters and which inequalities to tolerate, with more technical discussions of policy processes. Governments may be offering new perspectives on spatial justice or new ways to reduce political attention to inequalities.

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Section: Eu and Multi-level Policy Design: From Hard To Soft Equality...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe

Cairney

Keating

Kippin

et al. 2022

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“…When the literature turns to consider implementation, there is a strong concern about what the absence or low prioritization of gender in EU enlargement will mean internally (David and Guerrina, 2013;Debusscher and Manners, 2020;Guerrina et al, 2018;Mos, 2013). The literature also highlights the hypocrisy of the EU using rhetoric around gender equality in its enlargement policies when internal measures are failing to deliver (in terms of women's representation within the EEAS, Novotná, 2015 andin relation to LGBT rights, Mos, 2013; see also Woodward and Van der Vleuten, 2014).…”

Section: Eu Foreign Policymentioning

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“…However, several key oversights remain. Silences on the colonial past of EU states are particularly prescient in this literature (although Manners and Debusscher, 2020 propose a framework to challenge this). Claims on the part of the EU or individual states (particularly Sweden's FFP positioning) to be a normative power need to be more strongly interrogated in the context of the European colonial history.…”

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“…Claims on the part of the EU or individual states (particularly Sweden's FFP positioning) to be a normative power need to be more strongly interrogated in the context of the European colonial history. There has also been relatively little work thinking about the interactions of gender and race in these policies (although with some notable exceptions Achilleos-Sarll, 2018;Debusscher and Manners, 2020). Similarly, intersectionality is adopted in a piecemeal fashion in FFP.…”

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Feminist Foreign Policy Studies in Europe

Thomson

2022

Feminist IR in Europe

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This chapter addresses feminist IR scholarship in Europe on gender and foreign policy. Foreign policy has received comparatively little consideration from feminist scholars and, until recently, the field has been largely gender blind. The chapter discusses feminist scholarship in four key sections, on gender and the idea of ‘normative power’ Europe; the process of EU enlargement and expansion; the securitization/militarization of foreign policy; and, finally, the emerging literature on ‘feminist’ foreign policy. The chapter concludes with a discussion of what has been overlooked in the literature so far and what directions research might pursue in the future.

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“…There is also a gap between policy formulation in Brussels and implementation by the EUDs in the partner countries. As Debusscher and Manners (2020) point out, it is not just about what happens in the institutions in Brussels. External climate policy is also made and implemented in the delegations in the partner countries and in partnership with the partner countries.…”

Section: A Feminist Institutionalist Analysis Of Gender and Eu External Climate Policymentioning

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Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States

Magnusdottir¹,

Kronsell²

2021

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Climate change has arrived centre-stage on the EU's policy agenda. The new President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced in 2019 that Europe would be the frst climate-neutral continent by 2050 and introduced the European Green Deal and the frst EU climate laws as part of the project to achieve this goal. Externally, the EU plays a major role in international climate negotiations, partly to meet its global leadership aspirations, and partly to ensure that European manufacturing is not undercut by producers with lower environmental standards. Climate change also features prominently in EU foreign policy, where it is framed as part of a series of nexuses, connecting it with migration, security and confict. The need to address climate change rests against a backdrop of crisis -economic, environmental, health and political -building a sense of urgency and strategic prioritisation. One of the consequences of this is the sidelining of gender equality, despite the EU's repeated assertions of its commitment to mainstreaming the goal of gender equality throughout all its internal and external activities.This chapter draws on feminist institutionalism and the literature on policy integration, including gender mainstreaming, to show how and why gender is excluded from EU external climate policy. It asks, frstly, where, in external climate policy, do we fnd references to gender and what, if anything, do they contribute to achieving gender-just climate policy. Secondly, it asks how feminist institutionalism and policy integration studies can help us understand why gender equality is not mainstreamed in EU external policy and what institutional obstacles prevent its integration. I argue that gender has been excluded from EU external climate policy by a combination of institutional power struggles; a discourse of crisis and security, which pushes gender into the background; and a proliferation of nexuses and mainstreaming imperatives in which the treaty obligation to mainstream gender is pushed to one side. EU climate policyEU climate policy has three main components: mitigation, adaptation and climate diplomacy. Mitigation refers to strategies for reducing climate change,

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Understanding the European Union as a Global Gender Actor: The Holistic Intersectional and Inclusive Study of Gender+ in External Actions

Cited by 11 publications

References 70 publications

Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe

Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe

Feminist Foreign Policy Studies in Europe

Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States

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