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Karin Aggestam

Karin Aggestam

Professor | Föreståndare för CMES | Vetenskaplig koordinator för MECW | Excellent lärare

Karin Aggestam

Political leadership and gendered multilevel games in foreign policy

Författare

  • Karin Aggestam
  • Jacqui True

Summary, in English

Gender intersects as a major fault-line in increasingly polarized, contemporary global politics. Many democratic states in the global North and South have adopted pro-gender norms in their foreign policies, while other states and populist regimes have resisted the promotion of gender equality and women's rights. This article analyses how political leaders harness gender dynamics to further their power, status and authority to act in foreign policy. While scholarship on foreign policy analysis has emphasized the role of individuals, political leaders and their followers, and of two-level games balancing domestic and international pressures, we advance a novel theoretical concept: ‘gendered multilevel games’. This new concept highlights the gendered dynamics of the problem of agency and structure in foreign policy, which are generated from the interactions between the domestic, international and transnational levels, and reach within and across states. To illustrate the utility of this concept, we analyse foreign policy leadership and the variation in gendered multilevel games in four vignettes: (1) hyper-masculinity and revisionist leadership; (2) normative leadership and gendered nation-branding; (3) compassionate leadership and gendered transnational symbolism; and (4) contested leadership on pro- and anti-gender norms in foreign policy. Importantly, these empirical illustrations show how adept political leaders navigate pro- and anti-gender norms to achieve core and often divergent foreign policy goals.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publiceringsår

2021-03-08

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

385-404

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Affairs

Volym

97

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Political Science

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Rethinking Peace Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
  • Gender and Foreign Policy

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0020-5850