This paper conceptualises the triad of security, gender equality and democracy (support) practices to investigate how the European Union addresses the multifaceted interdependencies between these issues within its Neighbourhood Policy. After discussing the individual conceptual linkages, it sketches out how all three dimensions might be brought together while focusing specifically on possible reinforcing and contradicting tendencies between the gender equality-democracy and the gender equality-security nexuses. After outlining the general role of the triad within the EU’s Foreign Policy and overall Neighbourhood Policy, we will use the triad framework to map the EU’s discursive and behavioural practices within key Neighbourhood Policy documents for the case countries Armenia, Georgia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Palestine and Tunisia.