The article contributes to the emerging work on postcolonial feminist foreign policy and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) by showing that half of the selected countries did not report on Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, signaling a lack of engagement with the policy.
This lack of interest is argued to be linked to the agency of the marginalised states resisting the promoted foreign norm of gender equality.
The analysis also demonstrates that in those countries that engaged with Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, half of the coverage was about Swedish foreign policy actors as the main narrators of feminist foreign policy to international audiences. The presence of foreign policy actors in the public sphere of conflict-affected states is argued to constitute a challenge for marginalised states to resist international power relations.
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