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The Evolution of Male Weapons Is Associated with the Type of Breeding Site in a Clade of Neotropical Frogs

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Male weaponry evolution is often linked to male–male competition, but its relationship with breeding site type remains unclear. Using Leptodactylinae frogs, we found a macroevolutionary correlation between breeding site type and weapon evolution. Also, gains and losses of weapons occurred more frequently in exposed‐breeding sites, an unexpected finding.
Erika M. Santana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

The Nuclear Potential of India and Pakistan: Comparative Characteristic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Подано порівняльну характеристику ядерного потенціалу Інді та Пакистану. Проаналізовано запаси ядерної зброї обох країн та засоби її доставки. Розглянуто ядерні доктрини цих країн та їх політику щодо можливості використання ядерної зброї. Еhe comparative
Довган, А. С.
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Third or “Second and a Half”? Continuity, Path Dependence, and the Third Nuclear Age

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world has entered a new nuclear age. Scholars have characterized this “third nuclear age” as one of renewed competition among nuclear‐armed great powers and the coming maturation of new technologies. I trace the origins of the new nuclear age. Focusing primarily on US strategies with two case studies on conventional strike capabilities and
Jan Ludvik
wiley   +1 more source

Australia and the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative: difficult times for disarmament diplomacy [PDF]

open access: yes
Australia recognises the critical role that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons plays in preventing uncontrolled proliferation and promoting disarmament, and upholding the treaty has long been a core foreign policy goal.
Tanya Ogilvie-White
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

open access: yesProduction and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frequency of Use and Perceived Credibility of Information Sources and Variations by Socioeconomic Factors among Savannah River Stakeholders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The authors examine the factors effecting credibility of risk communication in the communities surrounding the Savannah River Nuclear Weapons ...
Brown, Sylvia   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Australia and the Path Not Taken: The Declining Independence and Influence of Middle Powers

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian foreign policy has famously been distinguished by the search for ‘great and powerful friends’. However, Australia's relationship with its current notional protector and key ally—the United States—has generally had more costs than benefits and, I argue, has consequently not been in Australia's much‐invoked ‘national interest ...
Mark Beeson
wiley   +1 more source

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