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Applications for the Green Foreign Policy Fellowship are now open

Published: 5 May 2025
The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Thessaloniki Office is pleased to announce the first iteration of our Green Foreign Policy Fellowship, aiming to support scholars, practitioners and experts from across the world in galvanizing critical discussions, developing convincing alternatives to the dominant but deadlocked approach of realism in international affairs, through data collection and analysis, guided by diplomatic practice, critical theory, and international relations theory. Up to the challenge? Apply today! (Application Period: 05-31/05/2025)
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Retrieved #4 Feminist Foreign Policy in the Academic Discussion

Published: 2 October 2024
INTERVIEW
In this 4th 'Retrieved' podcast series episode, which is published here as a transcript, we discuss with Lucia Yar the history of feminist foreign policy and its elaboration in academia: We shouldn't be kind of pushing academia somewhere to a different room. We shouldn't be dividing academia from think tanks, from politicians. They always need to kind of find the ground. And I think the feminist foreign policy is supposed to create that space for all these elements to come together and we see that this is happening.
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The German action plan for Climate Foreign Policy and the manifestos of Green parties

Published: 13 May 2024
ARTICLE
The German government recently adopted an action plan for its climate foreign policy. This article presents the core characteristics of this plan. Furthermore, it compares these characteristics with the findings of a recently published study conducted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which attempts to determine the concept of “green foreign policy”. The conclusion is that the German plan is indeed directed towards a concrete green strategy.
Ιannis Konstantinidis

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Publications


EU statecraft in the age of permacrisis

EU statecraft in the age of permacrisis

Published: 16 October 2023
PUBLICATION
The purpose of this working paper is twofold. First, to suggest and examine how the EU can enhance its security and its global role, without diverting its focus to the remilitarization of European politics. Second, to examine how, in the age of permacrisis, deliberative and discursive processes should be at the heart of EU public diplomacy.
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Green Foreign Policy Snapshots

Published: 13 September 2023
PUBLICATION
Green foreign policy, lacking an agreed upon definition, is often misquoted and misinterpreted, narrowed down to only protecting the natural environment. In this preliminary study conducted in 2022, we attempted to see beyond scattered political opinion by analysing data. Partial or complete, a green foreign policy doctrine may be an eventuality based on these initial findings.

Podcasts


Retrieved 5: Gender & Peace-Building

PODCAST
In the last episode of the series, activist, academic, and NGO leader Maria Hadjipavlou talks us through the important work she has done for the divided communities in Cyprus. She also shines a light on how a feminist approach to conflict resolution could help create a better chance for longer lasting peace.

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PODCAST
What does feminist foreign policy mean and how does it differ from the traditional one? What are its particular features? What is the need to move towards such a new policy model? Listen to the trailer of the series.

Perspectives on Feminist Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Kristina Lunz

PODCAST
In our inaugural episode, we are joined by Ms. Kristina Lunz, co-founder, and co-executive director of the Center for Foreign Policy in Berlin, Germany. A renowned human rights activist, best-selling author, and Forbes 30 under 30 alumni, Ms. Lunz shares her insights into the evolution of feminist foreign policy and its impact on the global stage.

Retrieved 3: Gender and Migration Policy

PODCAST
What would we see if we looked at migration through the gender lens? How does the experience of displacement differ for women and vulnerable social groups? In the 3rd episode, we speak with Neda Noraie-Kia, Head of European Migration Policy at the Thessaloniki Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

A Global North-South Dialogue on Feminist Foreign Policy

PODCAST
In the first episode of the mini podcast series “Hear Her Roar” host and feminist foreign policy fellow Sabrine Dao leads a discussion on the understanding and limitations of the concept of feminist foreign policy from a Global South perspective.

Retrieved 1: Why feminist foreign policy?

PODCAST
What is a feminist foreign policy? Does it just concern women? Or is it a new, more radical approach to foreign policy? In the 1st episode of the series we talk with Berlin-based Nina Bernarding, CEO and co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy.

Feminist Foreign Policy during War and Peace: Feminist Reflections with Prof. Cynthia Enloe and Dr. Soumita Basu

PODCAST
In the following episode, we continue our exploration with the distinguished Professor Cynthia Enloe from Clark University in Massachusetts and Dr. Soumita Basu, Associate Professor of International Relations at the South Asia University in New Delhi.

Retrieved 4: Feminist Foreign Policy in the Academic Discussion

PODCAST
Who produces knowledge on feminist foreign policy? When did academic research on feminist international relations start taking shape? And who gets to define what a feminist foreign policy might look like? In the 4th episode of the series we go back in time with Lucia Yar, acting editor-in-chief of Euractiv Slovakia.

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Videos


Warum wir eine feministische Außenpolitik brauchen (Englische Originalversion) - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

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Why we need a feminist foreign policy

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To provide some shared language as well as an introduction to Feminist Foreign Policy, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington, DC worked with a group of emerging feminist leaders from across the world to develop an explainer video outlining its key pillars.

Green Room #1 : Ελληνοτουρκικές σχέσεις και η επανέναρξη των διερευνητικών επαφών - Heinrich Boell Foundation - Office Thessaloniki

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Green Room #1 | Greek-Turkish relations and the restart of exploratory talks

VIDCAST
An interview by Michalis Goudis, Head of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Office Thessaloniki, with the Political Scientist and International Relations Expert, Theodoros Tsikas. Green Room #1

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"Hear Her Roar" - Talking Feminist Foreign Policy

Published: 31 March 2025
PODCAST SERIES
About a year ago, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Washington D.C. gathered a group of feminist fellows from around the world in the United States to explore the concept of a feminist foreign policy in more depth. The conversations back then never stopped and continued throughout 2024, culminating in our mini-podcast series "Her Her Roar" - Talking Feminist Foreign Policy. If you are unsure what a feminist foreign policy means in practice, how it can positively change our societies and shape a more holistic understanding of foreign policy, this podcast is for you.
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Feminist Foreign Policy: Shaping Global Discourses

Published: 31 March 2025
PODCAST SERIES
Welcome to Feminist Foreign Policy: Shaping Global Discourses, the insightful journey into the realm of feminist foreign policy, brought to you by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Regional Office New Delhi. Hosted by Dr. Tishya Khillare, researcher based in New Delhi, specializing in gender security and feminist international relations. In our conversations, we engage with thought leaders, experts, and activists who have paved the way for change in the field of feminist foreign policy. Our aim is to unravel the intricacies, challenges, and triumphs that shape this transformative approach to international relations.
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Feminist Foreign Policy

Published: 1 October 2024
DOSSIER
What is a feminist foreign policy? Is it just one or can it take many forms? To this day, such questions guarantee either a heated debate or profound confusion. In this analyses variété, we attempt to collect material from around the world, describing the various aspects of this narrative in an effort to go deeper, ask the tough questions and look for convincing answers. Feel free to roam and get to know better one of the most debated foreign policy narratives of our time.
‘Retrieved’: A Feminist Foreign Policy Podcast Series

‘Retrieved’: A Feminist Foreign Policy Podcast Series

Published: 4 September 2023
PODCAST SERIES
The future of foreign policy can be better. In the five episodes of this series of podcasts, with the help of policy advisors, journalists, researchers, and politicians, we examine how feminist foreign policy can reflect the interests of all genders and often overlooked stakeholders: from peace-building and climate, to migration and defence policy, we look to examples from across the EU that show how this bold new model benefits society at large - and the challenges on the horizon.

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