Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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Collective resonance: social relationships outperform confidence in explaining exercise-induced happiness in a collectivist society. [PDF]
Fang C, Zhou J.
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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Mechanisms for agricultural companies in enabling smallholders' integration into modern agriculture. [PDF]
Chen Y, Zhang H, Lu Y, Song Z.
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The Return of Industrial Policy in the EU: A Chance for Central and Eastern Europe?
Abstract This contribution explores the Visegrad four's (V4) responses to the revival of industrial policy in the European Union (EU). To a region so highly industrialised, and so dependent on foreign firms, this revival brings mixed blessings. Industrial policy focused on ‘European champions’ is driving investment towards core regions and firms ...
Vera Šćepanović, Imre G. Szabó
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Mapping the Evolution of China's Traditional Chinese Medicine Education Policies: Insights From a BERTopic-Based Descriptive Study. [PDF]
Yang T, Yang F, Li Y.
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Abstract In the context of the European Union's (EU's) geoeconomic shift, the governance of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) has become a central yet contested pillar of its external trade policy. Accusations of green colonialism highlight the stakes around how partner countries interpret the EU's normative agenda.
Camille Nessel, Zhihang Wu
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Evaluation of the coupled coordination of digital village, green agriculture and farmers' well-being in China. [PDF]
Xiong C, Zhou X, Liu F.
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The Limits of ‘Geopolitical Power Europe’: Why the EU's Eastern Neighbours Keep Hedging
Abstract This article examines the hedging strategies pursued by the European Union's (EU's) eastern neighbours – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – and asks why hedging has remained a recurrent foreign‐policy response despite the EU's intensified geopolitical engagement after Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine.
Bidzina Lebanidze
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The effects of distributed leadership on teaching innovation in Shanghai, China: the mediating roles of teacher autonomy, teacher collaboration, and teacher self-efficacy. [PDF]
Gong J.
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