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International Organizations in World Politics

By: Tamar Gutner

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International Organizations in World Politics

By: Tamar Gutner

This timely new title examines the importance and impact of major international organizations and their role in global governance. International Organizations in World Politics focuses on the most influential IOs, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. For each organization, author Tamar Gutner describes their birth and evolution, governance structure, activities, and performance. A second chapter on each organization presents a case study that illuminates the constraints and challenges each IO faces. Regional organizations and issues are also examined, including the European Union and the euro crisis, as well as a case study on the African Union’s peace operations.

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CQ Press

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1483320863

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9781483320861

Banking on the Environment

Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Tamar L. Gutner

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Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Tamar L. Gutner

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries. In this book Tamar Gutner analyzes the environmental policies of three MDBs: the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank. She compares their performance in Central and Eastern Europe, where the need for economic and environmental reform has been particularly urgent, and where these MDBs are among the largest donors. Gutner finds many obstacles to efforts to "green" the three banks, most notably a mismatch between the environmental mandates and existing patterns of institutional design and incentives. The depth and scope of the banks' green activities reflect the degree of shareholder commitment to environmental issues and how demand-driven the MDB is designed to be. Surprisingly, the World Bank, the most scrutinized and criticized of the three MDBs, has been rather more responsive than its counterparts to its environmental mandate in the region. The discussion is framed by larger explorations of the behavior of international organizations and the sources of their innovation and inertia in addressing new policy issues. Gutner demonstrates the need to examine the impact of different stages of the policy process on new mandates and to incorporate both political and institutional variables when developing theories about the behavior of international institutions.

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MIT Press

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0262262843

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9780262262842

Hollywood Catwalk

Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film

By: Tamar Jeffers McDonald

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Hollywood Catwalk

Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film

By: Tamar Jeffers McDonald

The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. Their perennial use prompts a series of questions: is, for example, male agency necessary to effect the transformation, or can the woman change herself? Can she ever change him? Most pressingly, what do these images of change and transformation, of improvement and transcendence tell us, the viewers, about what we should be doing? Investigating these questions, this book examines a key but frequently overlooked aspect of film style: the costume. Across all the films discussed, costume and the body it covers becomes the crucial element in the transformation scene, exemplifying the 'before' and 'after' of the successful change. Exploring the fantasies of transcendence and transformation sold through these films and exemplified in the costumes, this book examines "Calamity Jane", "Midnight Cowboy", "Clueless", "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "The Devil Wears Prada", and many other examples from both classic and contemporary Hollywood.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857733923

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9780857733924

International Organizations in World Politics

By: Tamar Gutner

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Banking on the Environment

Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Tamar L. Gutner

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Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe

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A comparative study of the environmental performance of the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank.

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Mit Press

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0262072351

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International Organizations in World Politics

International Organizations in World Politics

Banking on the Environment

Banking on the Environment

Hollywood Catwalk

Hollywood Catwalk

International Organizations in World Politics

International Organizations in World Politics

Banking on the Environment

Banking on the Environment

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