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

Novovic, Gloria ORCID: 0000-0003-0343-7921 (2024) Fit for feminism? Examining policy capacity for Canada’s feminist foreign policy. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 30 (3). 231 - 247. 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:	20 Dec 2024 00:55
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123898

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