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The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist

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John Wiley & Sonserschienen am05.09.20231. Auflage
As old white men continue to dominate the national and international stages, the needs of women and minorities are constantly ignored. International politics are shaped by a ruthless competition for advantage, and the world is full of conflicts, crises and wars. Things have to change.

Activist and political scientist Kristina Lunz is on a mission to do just that. In her work from New York to Bogotá, from Germany to Myanmar, she became aware of a stubborn unwillingness to think past the status quo and to embrace new, innovative voices from marginalized groups. She also saw that the tradition of feminist activism combined brilliantly with diplomacy: both require grim tenacity, boundless creativity and a solutions-oriented approach. In her attempt to reconfigure the field of foreign policy, she aims to set in motion a paradigm shift, replacing grandiose displays of military might with feminism, solidarity and climate justice. 

A feminist foreign policy requires the promotion of equal rights in the handling of foreign affairs and security matters worldwide, with a particular focus on marginalized and politically underrepresented groups. Ultimately, this is nothing less than an inclusive, visionary policy for the twenty-first century, one where security and prosperity, health and climate justice are possible - in other words: where peace is possible for everyone, everywhere.



Kristina Lunz is the co-founder and co-executive director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. She has a master's degree in Global Governance and Ethics from University College London and a master's in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford. In February 2019 she was included in Forbes Magazine's prestigious '30 under 30' list for Europe.mehr
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KlappentextAs old white men continue to dominate the national and international stages, the needs of women and minorities are constantly ignored. International politics are shaped by a ruthless competition for advantage, and the world is full of conflicts, crises and wars. Things have to change.

Activist and political scientist Kristina Lunz is on a mission to do just that. In her work from New York to Bogotá, from Germany to Myanmar, she became aware of a stubborn unwillingness to think past the status quo and to embrace new, innovative voices from marginalized groups. She also saw that the tradition of feminist activism combined brilliantly with diplomacy: both require grim tenacity, boundless creativity and a solutions-oriented approach. In her attempt to reconfigure the field of foreign policy, she aims to set in motion a paradigm shift, replacing grandiose displays of military might with feminism, solidarity and climate justice. 

A feminist foreign policy requires the promotion of equal rights in the handling of foreign affairs and security matters worldwide, with a particular focus on marginalized and politically underrepresented groups. Ultimately, this is nothing less than an inclusive, visionary policy for the twenty-first century, one where security and prosperity, health and climate justice are possible - in other words: where peace is possible for everyone, everywhere.



Kristina Lunz is the co-founder and co-executive director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. She has a master's degree in Global Governance and Ethics from University College London and a master's in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford. In February 2019 she was included in Forbes Magazine's prestigious '30 under 30' list for Europe.
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1
PROLOGUE: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL

What I most regretted were my silences⦠.
And there are so many silences to be broken.

Audre Lorde, The transformation of silence into language and action , in Sister Outsider (Feasterville Trevose, PA: Crossing Press, 2007)

It helps to be naive. Sometimes it s even a blessing. If I d realized, in 2014, what happens when a woman takes a public stand and calls out injustices, I probably wouldn t have started a campaign against sexism and the degradation of women in Germany s top-selling tabloid, Bild. But I was naive. I had no idea of the extreme hatred and violence that confronts women in the public arena - especially when they criticize the status quo.

Not knowing all this, in October 2014 I launched the petition Zeigt allen Respekt - Schluss mit Sexismus in BILD! (Show respect for everyone - no more sexism in Bild!). The campaign was born of the tremendous anger I felt towards the newspaper. Anger at injustice and inequality is in many ways exactly like fuel ,1 writes Rebecca Traister in Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women s Anger. Here she shows how the anger of women - from the suffragettes to the legendary Black* civil rights activist Rosa Parks, #MeToo or the Women s March - unleashes a transformative force. This has also been the experience of my friend and mentor Dr Scilla Elworthy. Born in Scotland in 1943, founder of numerous organizations and three times a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, she gave me this insight: anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around thoughtlessly it can spark a fire and cause massive destruction. But if you use it carefully, it can serve as fuel for your inner motor.
My feminist awakening â¦

So there it was, the anger. I was in my mid-twenties and studying for my first master s degree at University College London. That in itself was surprising, given that my parents hadn t been to university. In Germany, parents income and level of education are the main determinants of their children s career path. While 79 per cent of the children of university graduates go to university, only 27 per cent of the children of non-graduates do so. Only 11 per cent of the children of non-graduates do a master s degree, as opposed to 43 per cent of the children of graduates. The class we re born into determines our life to a significant extent. Individual social capital - the social group we belong to, the people we know - is a door-opener.2

In London I was overwhelmed by pretty much everything: the size of the city, the language, and the elite environment. I was intimidated and had a constant feeling of inadequacy. My fellow students had done their undergraduate degrees at Cambridge, Oxford, or other international universities; I came from an ordinary university in Germany. I buried myself in books; I had a lot of catching up to do. My main reading material was feminist literature: I d barely had any contact with this before, but for many of my fellow students it was standard fare.

My struggles were partly to do with my origins. I grew up in a village of eighty inhabitants in a picturesque corner of Bavaria as the youngest of three children - my twin brother is five minutes older than me. It was a sheltered childhood, in a very loving and warm-hearted family. In my teens, however, I began to feel increasingly uncomfortable in my surroundings. Everything about the community was very traditional. All the positions of power - the priest, the pub owner, the heads of the sports clubs, the mayor, the doctor, the driving instructor - were (and still are) occupied by men, and these men were treated with great respect. At the same time, some of them failed to show respect for me and other young women. At village festivals or sports days, they stood much too close to us at the bar, made sexualized allusions, and overstepped boundaries. When I wanted to gain my driving licence, it was an open secret that young women shouldn t take their lessons with the head of the driving school, who was widely known to have wandering hands. But in my time no one did anything about it - it was the norm.

Respect was a core tenet of my upbringing: it was extremely important to my parents to teach me and my siblings to treat our fellow humans respectfully. Dismissive terms such as idiot were not used in our home. Even if there were differences of opinion, there was never any shouting or disparaging language. Appreciation, reliability and helpfulness were the virtues we were measured against. My father, during his lifetime, worked long hours but was always there for the family and other villagers if they needed help in the evening or weekend - whether it was tying a necktie or laying cables (he was a trained electrician). The word kindness is probably the best description for the feeling our parents gave us. And it was this that I found hard to reconcile with the highly unpleasant feeling that many men inspired in me as a child and teenager. On the one hand, a great deal of respect was paid to these men in positions of leadership; on the other hand, it seemed that some of them exploited this status and behaved in a manner that was anything but kind - particularly towards us young girls and women. Yet my father s example showed me, even as a child, that there was another way.

In London, thanks to feminist literature and an international, cosmopolitan environment, a new world opened up to me. All at once, there were concepts and explanations for the many unpleasant situations and injustices that I d sensed for years but had never been able to frame or even articulate. The time in London was my feminist awakening. I learned, for example, that whenever a group of people is collectively objectified - by sexualization, for example - these individuals are dehumanized. This objectification makes it easier to inflict violence on them. In early 2021, a study by UN Women in the UK showed that 97 per cent of women aged eighteen to twenty-four had experienced sexualized violence in the form of harassment in public spaces.3 Girls in Brazil are between nine and ten years old, on average, when they first experience sexual harassment.4 Almost none of the perpetrators are ever held accountable. In Germany it is estimated that fewer than 1 per cent (!) of all rapists (not just those whose victims report them) are brought to justice.5 Also in Germany, one man attempts to kill his female partner or ex-partner every day. Every second to third day, one of them succeeds. It is a scandal that femicide is not a specific criminal offence, punished with the utmost severity, in German courts.

In short, I was far more aware of the malign influence of the patriarchy by the time I returned home at the end of my first term in London. Paying for petrol, I saw the Bild newspaper lying in front of me at the checkout. The front page showed photos of the cleavage of famous women and an invitation to vote for the best bosom on German TV . I was disgusted by the degrading treatment of these celebrities - and of women in general. As one of Germany s top-selling newspapers, Bild contributes to the preposterously high rate of male violence against women. At the time, I had no idea what activism was, or how to change things. But I wasn t prepared to tolerate this discrimination and sexualization of women, however widely it was accepted in our society.

When I talked to friends and acquaintances about my anger, many of them thought I shouldn t make such a fuss. After all, it was normal. But who defines what is normal and accepted? I remembered my feeling of powerlessness as a young girl, when I d see Bild lying on my grandmother s kitchen table in front of my assembled family, male members included. The front page showed news stories - mainly about men - and the Bild girl , the German version of the page 3 girl, the sexualized representation of a female body. I felt ashamed, sullied and humiliated. Would I be ogled later in life, like them? Would my body be commented on and sexualized? Would I be seen as an object, while the men around me were valued as subjects, playing active and dominant roles in politics, business, society and culture?

I sat down at my desk and wrote an open letter to Kai Diekmann, the editor-in-chief of Bild at the time. This became the start of a petition and a campaign. I wrote: It s time all people were treated with the same respect in Bild and Bild.de: women are not society s sex objects! Nearly 60,000 people signed. It was a much needed step to counter the silencing of women, which the patriarchy - smothering every truth that does not serve it - has practised for millennia.

This is also shown by the many examples of sexualized violence against women that have been discussed in public - as well as all the anonymous or unreported cases. It is shown by experiences such as those of Chanel Miller (raped by Brock Allen Turner on the campus of Stanford University in 2015), Nafissatou Diallo (who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the IMF, of sexual assault in 2011), Christine Blasey Ford (who accused Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018) and Nika Irani (who accused...
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