Description
Recently Germany joined the list of ‘liberal democracies’ (Brechemacher 2023) to have adopted Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP). However, not so long after, the colorline of international politics became apparent, once again. Thus bringing to the forefront the question, how does a ‘feminist foreign policy’ framework make place for racialized and gendered bodies in the realm of international politics ? (Achilleos-Sarl 2018). Exploring the possibilities of a FFP future for the South Asian subcontinent, this paper moves the focus away from the global North to pay attention to the ideas of decolonial democracy (Myer Temin 2020). In this pursuit, the paper interrogates the centrality of the decolonial visions of democracy, alongside the feminist ethic of care (Robinson 2019) in theorising FFP. Centering the non-western decolonial blueprints of the ethics of FFP, this paper outlines the feminist histories of south Asia, juxtaposing them with the current state of democratic backsliding in the sub-continent. Thus, asking- is/should there be a place for FFP in South Asia ? If yes, what are the pathways to it ?
