Globalization, Imperialism and Regulation

Commercial Imperialism?

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries’ decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had greater influence over foreign l...

Gender, culture and imperialism

Recent years have witnessed a small avalanche of critical historical work on British imperial culture across the social sciences and not least within geography. The inspiration behind the critical interest in empire, knowledge and power was undoubtedly Edward Said’s groundbreaking and provocative Orientalism. Waves of debate have permeated throughout the social sciences and humanities in respon...

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Imperialism and the Communist International

The globalization of messenger RNA regulation.

Transcriptional regulation has been a dominant area of research in gene expression for more than 50 years. However, the past 20 years of research in biology brought new focus on posttranscriptional events, namely RNA regulation. This emphasis on understanding the regulatory functions of RNAs emerged with the identification of cisand trans-regulatory regions in pre-mRNAs and mature mRNAs, noncod...