Fit for feminism? Examining policy capacity for Canada’s feminist foreign policy

Novovic, Gloria (2024) Fit for feminism? Examining policy capacity for Canada’s feminist foreign policy. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. ISSN 1192-6422

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Abstract

Canada's foreign policy, traditionally deployed as an exercise in retrospection, requires a strategic direction to address shared planetary threats of climate change, public health, and socio-economic crises. For over three years, the government’s pledge to articulate not only a strategic foreign policy but one with an explicitly feminist mandate, has remained unfulfilled. Given the risk of political instrumentalization of feminist labels and the lessons on policy-implementation gap of global gender equality agendas, this article examines Canada’s readiness for a feminist global engagement. Through Wu et al.'s ([2015]. Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities. Policy and Society, 34(3–4), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.09.001) conceptual framework of policy capacity, Canada’s feminist foreign policy emerges as lacking critical political and policy pre-requisites. This article outlines the main gaps across systems- and institutional levels and presents Canada's feminist foreign policy project as mired in politically fragmented, operationally uncoordinated, and institutionally underfunded policy capacity pillars that government and non-government actors are called to address.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcfp20
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author
Divisions:	Gender Studies
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2024 07:57
Last Modified:	15 Aug 2024 23:38
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123898

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