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Women, Peace and Security – the African Experience
Full text linkThe United Nations has been committed to promoting Women, Peace and Security for almost 20 years. But how has this agenda been implemented around the world? Toni Haastrup looks at Women, Peace and Security across Africa and finds important strides for gender equality but also significant challenges ahead
Reflections on the Africa-Europe Valletta Summit on migration and mobility
No full textWas the recent Valletta Summit successful in ensuring that African perspectives are no longer marginalised on issues such as migration and mobility? Toni Haastrup analyses the outcome
Introduction to Part I
No full textStudying Africa-European Union (EU) relations as ‘EU-Africa Relations’ is now an established subfield, particularly within studies on EU foreign policy. While recent years has seen the expansion in practice of Africa-EU relations outside of its traditional focus on development assistance and trade to new areas of cooperation such as science and technology and gender equality, among others, the former continues to dominate how one understand the relationship. This chapter contextualises how Africa-EU relations has been theorised. It focuses on International Studies and shows how this has helped them conceptualise African agency. In recent years, the literature has caught up such that African perspectives can inform some theorising of Africa-EU relations. The development of comparative regionalism, especially, has facilitated this attention to the African side of the story. The normative turn in regionalism and the empirical changes in regionalism in the Global South (especially Africa and Latin America) have created the space for Africa’s visibility in regional integration discourses
Regionalising Global Crises: The Financial Crisis and New Frontiers in Regional Governance
Full text linkHow are global crises, such as the current financial crisis, responded and dealt with? What are the consequences? Are there any links between regionalism and global crises in terms of stimuli, processes, and consequences? This edited volume brings together a range of examples to illustrate the development and importance of regional actors in the global governance of the political economy.
Regionalising Global Crises highlights the regional level dynamics that exacerbate or contribute to solving the global economic crisis. It also explores the potential for change in the governance of the global political economy and international financial architecture by assessing the current and past financial crises through regional lenses. In particular, it addresses the debates that have emerged on the roles of regions and regional actors by undertaking empirical investigation of the impact of the crises on Africa, Europe, BRICS, and East Asia and their reactions to those events. As such it will provide an important empirical and methodological resource for students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in regional actors, comparative regionalism and international political economy
Is it really that hard to find women to talk about the EU?
Full text linkThe significant absence of expert women’s voices from media debates and academic events related to the EU Referendum has been widely reported. Roberta Guerrina, Toni Haastrup, Katharine Wright share a list of women EU experts and argue there are in fact many women voices on these issues and they are not difficult to find. More work needs to be done by political institutions, campaigns, and the media to engage women experts and their contributions in a mature and meaningful way
Women in Brexit Debate: still largely confined to “low politics”
No full textDespite a few more women making an appearance in the TV referendum debates, the campaign continues to be dominated by male ‘experts’ and a presumption that women will vote on the basis of emotive issues of special interest to them, such as maternity leave policies, write Toni Haastrup, Katharine Wright and Roberta Guerrina. But true gender equality considers the impact of social policy on every part of society. We can and must challenge the perception of “high” and “low” politics that marginalises particular discussions and effectively sidelines women
25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK:An Opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad
No full textAfter a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen make the case for reprioritising the feminist principles of gender equality and inclusion in UK policy
25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK:An Opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad
No full textAfter a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen make the case for reprioritising the feminist principles of gender equality and inclusion in UK policy
25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK:An Opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad
No full textAfter a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen make the case for reprioritising the feminist principles of gender equality and inclusion in UK policy
Introduction:Energy and Resistance in/to 'Feminist' Foreign Policy
No full textJust over a decade after the first feminist foreign policy (FFP) was adopted by Sweden in 2014, a wealth of related research, policy, and advocacy has emerged. This Introduction takes stock of these developments, tracing key trajectories in both scholarship and practice, while also reflecting on the broader implications of these developments on our current moment in global politics. First, the Introduction outlines the emergence of FFP as a distinct object of analysis, highlights the landmarks that have shaped the field, and situates FFP within the context of the anti-gender and anti-feminist global backlash. Second, it maps different strands in the literature, with particular attention to newer themes and actors. While early research focused largely on the FFPs of Sweden and Canada, often adopting a liberal and celebratory orientation, recently, critical feminist perspectives informed by intersectionality, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches, have expanded the field, extending analysis to policy domains such as the environment and migration, among others. It also examines contestations in FFP praxis, including their implications for knowledge production. Finally, the Introduction summarizes the contributions of each chapter in the collection and how they collectively expand the FFP field
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