Advancing Feminist Foreign Policy in the Multilateral System: Key Debates and Challenges

To the term “feminist” and mainstreaming the concept explore the future of FFPs, the International Peace in their foreign policy. [...] In general, states tend to Institute, in partnership with the Open Society have a less transformative interpretation than civil Foundations and in collaboration with the co- society advocates. [...] September 2023, illustrates “If feminist foreign policy is to survive and state priorities while also Multilateral institutions are facing both growing grow, it will encompass contradictions and mirroring some of the hostility toward principles compromises, as with all policymaking, values emphasized by civil and civil society and member states will society, such as a focus on related to gender an. [...] FFPs could help contradictions and compromises, as with all integrate feminist approaches and principles into policymaking, and civil society and member multilateral institutions, leading to more inclusive states will have to collaborate to advance feminist and equitable outcomes. [...] This reflects postcolonial criticism of racialized foreign policies in the Global North that tend to view women in the Global South as lacking agency or as “other.” The dominant narratives around FFP have often erased perspectives from the Global South and overlooked these contexts’ long history of feminist engagement with foreign policy without the label of “FFP.” While foreign policies may never.