The EU as a soft power: does discourse mean practice? The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy through a critical feminist lens
Extant work on the European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) argues that it is unique as a ?soft power? in the international system, especially in comparison to the United States. The term's recent attachment to gender, through Robert Kagan's ?Mars vs. Venus? analogy in his popular work on Power and Weakness, is an important development in research that seeks to b
