scholarly journals Postcolonial Logic and Silences in Strategic Narratives: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Conflict-Affected States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Ekatherina Zhukova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
Conflict Affected States

scholarly journals Aid Targeting to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States and Implications for Aid Effectiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Yiagadeesen Samy ◽  
David Carment
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Fragility Index ◽  
Conflict Affected States

While significant amounts of foreign aid have been allocated to the group of so-called fragile and conflict-affected states in recent years, it is not clear whether that aid is targeted to where it is most needed. This article extends recent work by Carment and Samy (2017, in press), and focuses on aid targeting in fragile states by using the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy fragility index together with sectoral aid flows from the OECD Creditor Reporting System. Specifically, it considers six country-cases from a three-fold typology of states and evaluates the performance of these countries in terms of their fragility relative to the types of aid that they have received. The article argues that aid is poorly targeted in fragile states and by considering the sectoral allocation of aid it also contributes indirectly to the related issue of aid effectiveness.

scholarly journals Built on shaky ground: Reflections on Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-312
Author(s):  
Jessica Cadesky
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
International Assistance ◽  
Policy Environments ◽  
Promote Gender Equality ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Conflict Affected States ◽  
Shaky Ground

In October 2017, Canada launched its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). While Canada’s explicit use of the words “feminist” and “feminism” may be refreshing, critical questions on the FIAP’s interpretation and application of these concepts remain. These challenges are not unique to the FIAP. Rather, the central weaknesses of the FIAP can be seen as symptomatic of several endemic challenges that persist in the current policies and practices that seek to promote gender equality in the developing world and beyond. This article presents the theoretical and conceptual lineage that has informed the FIAP, drawing from challenges present within literature on security, gender equality, and gender mainstreaming. Three main shortcomings relevant to both the literature and the FIAP are explored: first, the assumptions and essentialization of “gender” to mean “women ”; second, the frequent conflation of “gender equality” with “women’s empowerment”; and last, the paradox of gender, gender equality, and feminism being simultaneously over-politicized and depoliticized to suit prevailing policy environments, with particular implications for the global coronavirus pandemic, as well as impacts in fragile and conflict-affected states. This analysis sheds light on persistent challenges in feminist foreign policymaking and offers insights for the development of Canada’s White Paper on feminist foreign policy.

How do strategic narratives shape policy adoption? Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-63
Author(s):  
Carolijn van Noort ◽  
Thomas Colley
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Policy Adoption ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
Material Gain ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractStrategic narratives are increasingly considered important for domestic and international support for foreign policy. However, debate continues about why some strategic narratives successfully shape policy outcomes, while others are rejected. How states construct strategic narratives is well established. We know less about how states appropriate the strategic narratives of others, and the role this plays in policy adoption. Addressing this, we introduce a theoretical framework to trace the relationship between strategic narratives and policy adoption. Its central premise is that a state is more likely to adopt a new policy if it can strategically narrate about it in a way that promises material gain but without undermining its ontological security. We test our framework using states’ responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Examining the Second Belt and Road Forum in 2019, we trace how far China's strategic narratives are appropriated by multiple states – Kazakhstan, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States, India, and Mexico. Countries appropriate China's narrative emphasis on connectivity, trade, and prosperity. However, they contest that China's intentions are benign, based on its human rights record, assertive foreign policy, and fears of indebtedness. Finally, we discuss our framework's utility in explaining what makes strategic narratives persuasive in International Relations.

scholarly journals THE JUSTIFICATION STRATEGIES OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 2014: A STUDY OF THE CASES OF CRIMEA JOINING RUSSIA AND RUSSIAN MILITARY OPERATION IN SYRIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Stanislav Myasnikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
International Level ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
Military Operation ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
Syrian Arab Republic ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Domestic Level

The trajectory of the Russian foreign policy changed in 2014 as Russia deviated from its foreign policy principles. A specific justification was needed in order to legitimize Russian foreign policy domestically and abroad. Russian officials provided such a justification. It was successful on the domestic level, but its effectiveness on the international level was questionable. This article undertakes an analysis of the justification strategies of Russian foreign policy after 2014, with a focus on those, which were used by Russian authorities in their justification of Crimea joining Russia and Russian actions in the Syrian Arab Republic. It is shown why the justification could be considered as strategic. Applying the instruments of the strategic narratives’ theory, the author reveals the main strategic narratives of Russian foreign policy officials. The article discovers that the main justification strategies were communicative defense, communicative attack, communicative counter-attack, and position declaration. The communicative position of the Russian Federation in the case of Crimean justification could be explained as initially difficult, but gaining a communicative position in the justification of Russian actions in Syria could positively support the justification of the Crimean case.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC NARRATIVES AS A SOFT POWER POLITICAL RESOURCE: THE IMMORTAL REGIMENT ON GUARD OF THE INTERESTS OF RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
T. A. Podshibyakinа ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Second World

The article examines the question of Russia's use of "soft power" in its foreign policy in the context of a nar-rative scientific direction. The research goal is to describe strategic narratives as a communication technolo-gy of "soft power". The author evaluates the heuristic possibilities of the concept of strategic narratives as an analytical research tool. As the civil action "Immortal Regiment" is chosen as a political practice, it was nec-essary to clarify whether the photograph is a kind of narrative and to offer a triangulation of narrative and quantitative methods of analysis. The empirical part of the study is based on content analysis, allowing re-cording the dynamics of the global spread of the Immortal Regiment campaign. The outcome is an assess-ment of the effectiveness of using strategic narratives as a resource of Russia's soft power in foreign policy on the example of the "Immortal Regiment" campaign at the global level. The classification of media re-sources as communicative intermediaries in the spreading of strategic narratives is carried out. It is shown that the narrative that Russia is trying to convey is the history of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, reflecting the official discourse of historical policy and the policy of commemorating these events.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolas K. Gvosdev ◽  
Jessica D. Blankshain ◽  
David A. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy
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