Abstract
AbstractThis chapter traces the development of feminist scholarship in Europe on diplomacy and international negotiation. Sensitive to variations between different national contexts, this chapter suggests that the state frames the broader socio-political environment, which incentivizes or discourages the creation of feminist knowledge. This chapter also provides important insights on prevailing silences and limitations of existing research. By outlining both the thematic and the geographical discrepancies in feminist knowledge production on diplomacy across Europe, this chapter calls attention to the systematic disregard of gender as a category of analysis in many European countries and offers useful avenues for further research.
Highlights
Over the last two decades, feminist studies in Europe on diplomacy and international negotiation have evolved into a dynamic inter-disciplinary research field, offering an inspiring vision of gender history, women’s representation, and the shifting empowerment of men and women in international affairs across time
A significant number of scholars in Europe have contributed to rethinking and re-conceptualizing diplomacy as a gendered practice and study, joining the global feminist international relations (IR) debates, which sought to unveil the gendered character of international politics and of the key concepts employed in the field
Feminist knowledge production in Europe on diplomacy and international negotiation has been characterized by a growing vitality and diversity in research scopes, themes, methods, and approaches and has evidenced a significant potential to capture dynamics of continuity and change in the gendered character of diplomatic practices and institutions
Summary
Over the last two decades, feminist studies in Europe on diplomacy and international negotiation have evolved into a dynamic inter-disciplinary research field, offering an inspiring vision of gender history, women’s representation, and the shifting empowerment of men and women in international affairs across time. Informed by the understanding that gender discourses and feminist knowledge take shape within particular political and socio-economic environments, which has the potential to model scholarly interest, methods, approaches, and production, this chapter sets out to explore whether and how different national contexts of Europe may influence scholarly efforts to integrate gender into foreign policy and diplomacy research.
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