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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:39:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Belt and Road initiative in Italy: Five case studies</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290592</link>
      <description>Title: The Belt and Road initiative in Italy: Five case studies
Editors: Gallelli, Beatrice; Ghiretti, Francesca
Abstract: Italy's officially joining the China-led Belt and Road Initiative sparked a fierce debate. By analysing five fields of cooperation, the volume sheds light on whether the bilateral agreement has brought about an intensification of bilateral collaboration as wished by the Italian government at the time and whether the concerns around it have materialised. The contributions will show that potential risks coexist alongside unsubstantiated ones.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cultivating Compassion: Going beyond crises</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290590</link>
      <description>Title: Cultivating Compassion: Going beyond crises
Editors: Shi, Juewei; Hill, Stephen; Franzway, Suzanne
Abstract: The massive disruptions caused by climate change, the Covid-19 Pandemic, war, and ever-rising inequalities have presented the world with challenges across social and economic life, health and education, policy, politics, and community life. Compassion is a central Buddhist value and practice but is also essential to our survival. Defined as feeling genuine concern about the suffering of others and, critically, coupled with a commitment to attempt to alleviate or prevent it. The desire and commitment to help are what differentiates compassion from similar emotions like empathy and sympathy. Compassion demands the courage to turn toward suffering with clarity and skilful means.　 Hence, we have the Buddhist recognition that compassion is inseparable from wisdom, in the analogy of the two wings. This book is titled, Cultivating Compassion: Going Beyond Crises as it is rooted in this perspective while presenting different approaches which aim to advance our understanding of the questions and dilemmas posed by the current global crises and the cultivation of compassion.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trade Unions in the European Union</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290591</link>
      <description>Title: Trade Unions in the European Union
Editors: Waddington, Jeremy; Müller, Torsten; Vandaele, Kurt
Abstract: Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of the European Union (EU) and at the European level. The twentyseven country chapters at the core of this book chart the features of the neoliberal challenge in the EU Member States and the measures implemented by unions in their attempts to adapt to changed circumstances since 2000. It is clear that union activity, either independently or in conjunction with allies, will be at the centre of revitalization campaigns if the pieces left from the neoliberal challenges are to be picked up and wielded into a coherent response. This book offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the development, structure, and policies of national trade union movements in the EU. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses from 2000 to 2020.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Social Investment and Territorial Inequalities: Mapping Policies and Services in the Baltic States</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281283</link>
      <description>Title: Social Investment and Territorial Inequalities: Mapping Policies and Services in the Baltic States
Editors: Bucaite-Vilke, Jurga
Abstract: Drawing on recent research perspectives, the book discusses how social investment policies could be responsive to territorial inequalities in terms of better policy coordination, capacities, and institutional infrastructures' adaptability to territorial needs. By combining theoretical notions about territorial cohesion, territorial development, and social investment, the book provides an argument for the "territorialization of social investment policy" in the case of Lithuania. The contributions of various authors encourage a different way of looking at the territorial sensitivity of welfare policy strategies implemented in advantaged developing areas and those which are disadvantaged peripheral territories.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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