How Feminist Foreign Policies Work to Enhance Gender Justice

Read the article published by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs here.

By Kathryn Sikkink and Helen Clapp

February 18, 2024

This article examines whether the Global North uses feminist foreign policies (FFPs) to impose their values on the Global South and if such policies can enhance gender justice. Using evidence from their new global data set of transitional justice mechanisms, the authors argue that countries with FFPs do not impose gender-attentive transitional justice on other countries. Rather, FFPs should be viewed both as an expression of a commitment to internal gender-attentive policies and a willingness to support and fund these policies abroad.