Operationalising a Feminist Foreign Policy

It is my pleasure to share a paper written by Stephenie Foster.

In order to increase the prospects for peace, stability, and security, foreign policy must integrate the goal of gender equality into national security strategies and approaches. The principles of women’s rights, human security, and cooperation, and the need for government action to be aligned domestically and around the world are central to a feminist approach to foreign policy.

This paper seeks to do one thing: to make recommendations about how a feminist foreign policy could be operationalised within the institutions and policy-making processes of the U.S. government, through the implementation of existing policy and legislation, most notably the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017 (WPS Act). It follows the groundbreaking work done by Sweden to implement the world’s first feminist foreign policy in 2015, followed by Norway, Canada, France, Luxembourg and Mexico.

Download the paper here.