“Sweden says it will use a feminist foreign policy vs Russia

[Luigi]

Margot Wallström, the newly minted foreign minister, has said that under her leadership Sweden will become the only country in the world to conduct a “feminist foreign policy.” That’s a perspective that flows from U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, a landmark measure that recognized both the disproportionate impact war has on women and the role women must play in ensuring peace and security….

By empowering women, the argument goes, there are better chances of snuffing out wars before they start and of ending them in more equitable ways. However, it is less clear what such a feminist foreign policy has to say about the old-school power politics that Putin has helped resuscitate in the past year.

During a recent debate in the Swedish parliament, Wallström said that her feminist approach is based on the American political scientist Joseph Nye’s concept of “smart power.” “The tools of foreign policy can, in varying degrees, be hard as well as soft. The situation at hand determines this,” Wallström said. “The half of the population that so far has been almost systematically excluded and forgotten — namely, women — will now be included.”

Asked how she believes a feminist foreign policy will help end Russian aggression, Wallström suggested it would be useful to review women’s participation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and to look at what it does to address the problems women face — a statement exactly as vague as it sounds …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volo ... ggression/

[Canuckster]

Well, there goes Sweden, was nice knowing you.

[Som-Pong]

It doesn't worry me. This only really hits the cities, and they are the ones behind the policies and deserve to reap their consequences. My people will be fine.

[Luigi]

Does "a disproportionate impact on women" honestly mean she thinks war effects them more than men? Im trying to convince myself she means disproportionally less than men but that would just be redundant and wouldnt need recognition. This fucking bitch has the nerve to say women are more impacted by war than men after we have given countless lives for countless generations so women can live a peaceful protected existence.

On the bright side at least now we have women like Karen Straughen who are speaking out against this kind of craziness, or at least we do on this side of the pond.

[Som-Pong]

There will be a backlash Starship Troopers style.