NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn

Wright, Katharine A. M.; Rosamond, Annika Bergman

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“…In an attempt to utilise popular culture in projecting its policy against gender-based sexual violence, NATO hosted UN High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie at the Headquarters in January 2018 (NATO 2018). Wright and Bergman Rosamond (2021) interpret this a bit surprising action of cultural referencing of one of the most famous film celebrities as a NATO's cunning plan designed to upgrade its public credibility by exploiting the high visibility of celebrities as security actors. In this way, according to Wright and Bergman Rosamond, Angelina Jolie might glamorise NATO's global public image in decline by lending to this international organisation a part of "gender legitimacy" based on her professional and public engagements with the issue of wartime sexual violence.…”

Section: Experiences Of Doing War: Masculinisation Of Womenmentioning

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Entangled in the Continuum of Violence: How do Women Experience War?

Korać¹

2022

The Review of International Affairs

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The paper illuminates several issues that arise from the lack of or extensive marginalisation of the female wartime experiences as a relevant debate topic in International Relations (IR) of the day. The analysis is positioned in feminist IR theories and gender studies of war and centres around the notion of continuum of violence as an optimal conceptual tool to embrace the complexities of interactions between women's agency in war and their pervasive victimisation. By employing the concept of continuum of violence, two intertwined planes of female war experiences are examined: the experiences of knowing war and the experiences of doing war. The author concludes that, despite the representational power of the corporate and social media in conveying images of reality to an everwidening public, wartime experiences of women continue to be blurred and devalued in contrast to glorification of masculine ideal of male hero. Women's experiences of war are officially acknowledged only if they fit the patriarchal order and dominant narratives on the state in international relations, not if they challenge gendered discursive practices. The gender stereotyping of women as "natural" non-combatants reproduces marginalisation of female experiences in doing war as female soldiers are either silenced after conflict or labelled as deviants.

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Section: Experiences Of Doing War: Masculinisation Of Womenmentioning

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Entangled in the Continuum of Violence: How do Women Experience War?

Korać¹

2022

The Review of International Affairs

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“…However, their political 'brand' -as well as their own ontological security -can be severely damaged by reputational crises which undermine their core constitutive messaging (c.f. Van Ham 2001;Power et al 2009;Wright and Bergman Rosamond 2021;Haastrup, Duggan, and Mah 2021). Reputational risk events -just as with TNCs -can cause states, and multi-state actors, to lose face and bear diminished political and commercial standing.…”

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An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa

Langan

2022

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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The article assesses the reputational risks associated with health focused EU public diplomacy (PD) in Africa in the closing years of the Cotonou Agreement. Focussing on the COVID-19 pandemic, it assesses Europe's PD strategy in Africa in the wake of the virus. It explains health focused European PD stories -as well as aid delivery -in Africa in terms of the EU's self-image as a normative power, its concern for reputation management, and its power plays vis-à-vis rival donors, notably China. However, the article argues that the EU's PD focus on health narratives bears severe reputational risks for Europe in terms of opening-up wider interrogations of the health impacts of Africa-EU ties. Notably, the health risks for African citizenries of Europe's neo-colonial commercial policies far outweigh any benefits associated with the 'Team Europe' pandemic response. The article concludes by considering African agency to contest EU PD discourse on its health terrain, and to leverage the EU's reputational risks to challenge Europe's unhealthy relationship with African countries.

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“…It considers what has changed to enable NATO to formally consult civil society on its policy making in respect to WPS and the consequences of this for the WPS agenda. In so doing, it contributes to the broad body of largely critical feminist work interrogating the significance of NATO's engagement with WPS and its role as a gender actor (Wright, 2016(Wright, , 2019Wright et al, 2019;Wright and Bergman Rosamond, 2021;Hurley, 2018aHurley, , 2018bBastick and Duncanson, 2018;Hedling et al, 2022; see also, Hardt and von Hlatky, 2020).…”

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Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Wright¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is therefore highly significant for both NATO and the WPS agenda. Despite this, the efficacy of such consultation is not clear-cut nor its potential to mitigate militarised understandings of WPS and support transformative engagement with the agenda, particularly given the wariness of some civil society to engage with NATO. Drawing on interviews with civil society, this article interrogates their perceptions of NATO in order to understand the potential of such engagements to support transformative understandings of WPS and more broadly the efficacy of civil society engagement with military institutions. In so doing, it examines how such consultation adds to our understanding of NATO as an institution of international hegemonic masculinity.

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NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Entangled in the Continuum of Violence: How do Women Experience War?

Entangled in the Continuum of Violence: How do Women Experience War?

An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa

Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

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