The Differentiated Europeanisation of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Diffusion of Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in Europe

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the process by which feminist foreign policy from Sweden has diffused to other major European countries, this study employs the framework of differentiated Europeanisation. This approach combines the theoretical discussions on Europeanisation and differentiated integration that have been developed in recent years in European integration theory. To this end, the study first examines the definition and history of feminist foreign policy, and then discusses the theoretical development and features of the main analytical framework, differentiated Europeanisation. The processes of the diffusion of feminist foreign policy from Sweden to other major European countries are analysed using the theoretical framework of differentiated Europeanisation. This study aims to provide a theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of the diffusion of feminist foreign policy in different forms in major European countries and to reaffirm the usefulness of integration theory as a middle-range theory that has been developed in the sui-generis historical context of European integration.