A N A LY S I S PEACE AND SECURITY EU FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY ON SYRIA How a holistic perspective can inform EU policymaking on Syria Nora-Elise Beck and Barbara Mittelhammer May 2021 The EU should develop a new perspective to respond to Syria’s multidimensional crises. So far, its approach toward Syria has tended to be gender blind and state instead of human centered. Feminist foreign policy pro­vides a three-dimensional framework to comprehensively analyze the EU’s approach toward Syria. It broadens the definition of security, decodes power relations, and recognizes diverse agency in policymaking. The EU should promote gender­aware human security for all Syrians, reduce power imbalanc­es at all levels of engagement, and ensure inclusive and diverse feminist and civil society par­ticipation in EU policymaking.