Responding to calls for the EU to adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), Katharine A. M. Wright, Roberta Guerrina, Toni Haastrup and Annick Masselot argue that a simple ‘add women and stir’ approach is meaningless and possibly counterproductive unless it tackles, at the same time, historical and current patterns of exclusion and oppression
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Newcastle University
Katharine A. M. Wright is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University.
Her research and teaching focus on gender and security, including at NATO and in EU foreign and security policy. With Matthew Hurley and Jesus Ignacio Gil-Ruizhe, she is the author of NATO, Gender and the Military: Women Organising from within (Routledge, 2019).
Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including International Affairs, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Katharine has also contributed to other outlets including the LSE Impact Blog, Open Democracy and E-International Relations.
Katharine is Chair of the International Studies Association (ISA) Committee on the Status of Women (2020-22), a member of the Northumbrian Universities Military Education Committee (2018-21) and lead convener of the UACES Research Network 'Gendering European Studies' (2018-22).
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