Defence/military

Bergman, Rosamond, A; Wright, KAM

Defence/military

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Katharine A. M. Wright ORCiD

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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a book chapter that has been published in its final definitive form by Bristol University Press, 2024.

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Abstract

Feminist informed foreign policies seek to transform the global gender order, rather than reproducing narrow definitions of security tied solely to the state. Yet the increasing militarisation of state foreign policies has had less attention paid to it than might be expected given the growth of war and conflict globally. This chapter examines where and how defence is addressed in feminist informed foreign policy. In doing so, we call for more attention to feminist scholarship on war as experience, just war theory, pacificism and self-defence in order to provide a more robust ethical content to pro-gender and feminist foreign policies. We also find that the silence of defence in the practice of feminist informed foreign policies is echoed in the scholarship on the topic.