The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy
Author(s)
Aggestam, Karin
Rosamond, Annika Bergman
Hedling, Elsa
Language
EnglishAbstract
The overarching aim of the book is to provide the first comprehensive account of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy and its dissemination through digital diplomacy. In contrast to other scholarly studies of digital diplomacy that tend to view it as a technological and apolitical device for online diplomatic communication, this book examines the specific political dynamics of digital diplomacy. It posits that digital diplomacy is a highly political practice and form of communication. The book offers an in-depth examination of the interdependent relationship between digital diplomacy and feminist foreign policy, with an empirical focus on Sweden. Additionally, it introduces a novel theoretical framework to analyse the political characteristics of digital diplomacy, emphasising the oscillation between antagonism and agonism at the intersection of feminist foreign policy and digital diplomacy. In sum, the book provides new theoretical and empirical knowledge of why, how, and in what ways power-political dynamics are produced, sustained, and transformed within the contexts of feminist foreign policy and digital diplomacy. While the focus centres on Sweden, the authors contend that their novel approach to examining the political dynamics of digital diplomacy and feminist foreign policy applies to other country case studies as well. This is an open access book.
Keywords
feminist foreign policy; digital diplomacy; nation branding; Sweden; digital communication; gender justice; global politics; state feminism; political leadership; contestation; political of digital diplomacyDOI
10.1007/978-3-031-63697-4ISBN
9783031636974, 9783031636967, 9783031636974Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2024Grantor
Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanSeries
Global Foreign Policy Studies,Classification
International relations
Politics and government
Diplomacy
Political science and theory