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Supporting Practices Inspired by Solidarist Ideas: The EU in the UNSC Open Debates on Women, Peace and Security

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EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System

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Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), adopted by the UNSC in 2000, is considered a watershed in the evolution of women’s rights, resulting from an international liberal solidarist context. This chapter focuses on how the sovereignism of emerging powers contests the liberal practices underpinning the resolution, such as the human security approach, participation of the civil society or accountability mechanisms. This contestation is reflected in the regular Open Debates of the UNSC on WPS, where the Europeans have turned the most vocal supporters of those practices. Building on the analytical framework of this book, this chapter argues that the EU opts for a strategy of protective entrenchment since the undergoing changes clash with the EU’s values and policies.

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  1. Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Esther Barbé

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    Oriol Costa

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Barbé, E. (2016). Supporting Practices Inspired by Solidarist Ideas: The EU in the UNSC Open Debates on Women, Peace and Security. In: Barbé, E., Costa, O., Kissack, R. (eds) EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54758-3_7

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