1st Edition

Gender and International Relations in North Africa Decentring EU Policies in Tunisia

By Clara della Valle Copyright 2027
246 Pages
by Routledge

Gender and International Relations in North Africa: Decentring EU Policies in Tunisia offers a critical rethinking of international gender agendas by placing Tunisian perspectives at the centre of analysis. Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary, theoretical account and extensive empirical research, the book examines European Union gender policies in Tunisia from the 1995 Association Agreement... Read more

Introduction 1. Decentring international and European gender agendas: theoretical and methodological considerations 2. Centring the ‘local’: Tunisian feminist and queer activism amid political turmoil and intersecting crises 3. EU gender policies in Tunisia under dictatorships (1995-2011) 4. EU gender policies in Tunisia during the democratic transition (2011-2021) 5. Towards an agency-based approach in EU gender policies 6. EU gender policies in Tunisia in times of authoritarian restoration (2021-present) 7. Conclusions

Biography

Clara della Valle is an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the University of Bologna, where she was a Research Fellow (2021-2025). She holds a PhD in Politics, Human Rights, and Sustainability from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (2019), where she contributed to the project Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security (2020). She serves on the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on International Relations of the Italian Political Science Association and as an Associate Editor of Interdisciplinary Political Studies.