The plant genus Mimulus is rapidly emerging as a model system for studies of evolutionary
and ecological functional genomics. Mimulus contains a wide array of phenotypic, ecological …

Scholarly assessments of transnational actors are largely optimistic, suggesting they herald
an emerging global civil society comprising local civic groups, international organiza-tions (…

The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century
was the original" great game." But in the past quarter century, a new" great game" has …

The dairy processing and slaughterhouse industries consume large volumes of water and
their waste effluents often contain high levels of chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical/…

Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or
surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority …

… In Base Politics, Alexander Cooley examines how domestic … Sea and Central Asia, Cooley
offers an original and provocative … Overseas bases, Cooley shows, are not merely installations …

We live in a period of great uncertainty about the fate of America's global leadership. Many
believe that Donald Trump's presidency marks the end of liberal international order-the very …

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consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, …

Since the great financial meltdown of 2008, it has become commonplace to think of the
West as being in normative retreat. The meltdown has undercut the perception that Western …

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes
in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and …