@article{article_836669, title={Feminist Foreign Policy Approaches of the European Union Member States: An Index Proposal}, journal={Turkish Journal of Social Work}, volume={4}, pages={91–100}, year={2021}, author={Ünlü, Adviye Damla}, keywords={Avrupa Birliği, Feminist Dış Politika, Toplumsal Cinsiyeti Anaakımlaştırma, Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği}, abstract={Many countries have made gender equality a foreign policy priority and have aimed gender mainstreaming in their external affairs in recent years. Along with individual states like Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico, the European Union (EU) has also developed a variety of initiatives, policies, and strategies within its external action that either incorporate a gender perspective or that actively aim at fostering gender equality as the strategic approach. However, member states retain a high level of control over external action, mainly security and defense. This requires further member state engagement to feminist foreign policy as a priority to develop the EU feminist foreign policy. In this context, this study investigates the feminist foreign policy approach of the EU member states through indicators of feminist foreign policy. The study is structured as follows: discussion on the conceptual development, definition, and indicators of feminist foreign policy, evaluation of EU member states based on the theoretical background, and indicators of the feminist foreign policy. The results provided a functional framework to evaluate feminist foreign policy approaches of different states and their strengths and weaknesses in different sub-dimensions of feminist foreign policy. These findings may guide states which have the aim of gendering their foreign policies.}, number={2}, publisher={İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi}