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On the other hand, it is requiring serious analysis now to determine whether Legarde's and Georgian's back-to-back tenures have generated new attention among IMF economists to what feminist analysts long have shown to be the disproportionate economic hardships falling on women in IMF loan-receiving countries as a consequence of the IMF's standard austerity package of loan conditions. GEST was launched by feminist faculty at the University of Iceland and is designed for mid-level civil servants and NGO staff people from countries in the Global South. The politics of sexual harassment in each country have international dynamics (via the Olympics, transnational corporations, international treaties, transnational legal strategies, and transnational women's organizing) and, though each of these national politics is distinctive, some of the political gender dynamics are surprisingly similar. AC: B Your pioneering book, I Bananas, Beaches and Bases i , confronted International Relations (IR) scholars with one simple question - "Where are the women?". [Extracted from the article]

AC: B The range of your scholarship, and the diversity of your interlocutors and your texts, is striking: Arendt, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Derrida, Rosenzweig, Winnicott, Melville, and Sophocles, to name a few, as well as I The Wizard of Oz i , I Shane i , and I Strictly Ballroom i , the films of Lars von Trier, and the Biblical story of Ruth. This is especially evident in I Democracy and the Foreigner i [4] and I Emergency Politics i .[5] Might you talk a bit about how you come to these new questions, and whether you think this sort of questioning is a distinctive role political theory brings to political science and to politics more generally? The virus was an occasion to witness the good that government can do, but unfortunately Trump, Kushner, and others saw instead opportunities for retribution against states and cities with Democratic governors and mayors. Forthcoming this spring are two books: I A Feminist Theory of Refusal i , (Harvard 2021) and a collection of her public writing, I Shellshocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump i (Fordham 2021). B Alyson Cole b is Professor of Political Science, Womens & Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. [Extracted from the article]