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Distinctness and diversity of perspectives, lack of a unified, precise strategy of action and conflicts between the governments of particular countries are factors responsible for the fact that the condition of Europe on the international arena is seen as unstable. This is directly reflected in the level of security and will affect the position of the Old Continent in the future. Those countries which have taken upon themselves the task of creating a new European order often very in their particular beliefs and preferences. On the one hand there is an assumption of codependence and integration of European countries, which is treated as a guarantee of their development and security, whereas on the other hand more and more often a process of regionalization can be noticed. The contradictoriness of unification results from a lack of one universal conception of a 'United Continent'. The author of the article seeks to answer the question which vision - unification or regionalization - is better for the development of contemporary Europe. However, does political strategy today make it at all possible to give a univocal answer?
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The article dwells upon the concept of 'growth diagnostics' introduced by D. Rodrik. It sees this descriptive model as a background for analysing insufficient economic growth in East Germany since Reunification. Having outlined the main premises of 'growth diagnostics' the paper reviews selected empirical studies devoted to East-West economic problems after unification. Market failures (lack of coordination, scale economies, externalities) seem to be the most important reasons for East Germany's lagging behind. Modern, tailored made industrial policy shall address these problems.
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In this paper significant challenges are raised with respect to the view that explanation essentially involves unification. These objections are raised specifically with respect to the well-known versions of unificationism developed and defended by Michael Friedman and Philip Kitcher. The objections involve the explanatory regress argument and the concepts of reduction and scientific understanding. Essentially, the contention made here is that these versions of unificationism wrongly assume that reduction secures understanding.
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The author raises the question of the unification of the Kingdom of Poland at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. The main problem discussed in literature was to what degree and if at all the succeeding monarchs managed to unify Polish lands during the years 1295-1320. The author attempts to show that the rule of Wacław II from the Czech Přemyslid dynasty was not a breakthrough in the process of unifying Polish lands. The Czech king concentrated his energy on seizing the Hungarian crown, leaving the Kingdom of Poland on the margins of his political activities. This resulted in maintaining particularisms in Polish society, especially in Great Poland. After the downfall of Czech rule in 1306, duke Władysław the Short was forced to try to rebuild the Kingdom for over a dozen years. Finally he succeeded in 1320. Stabilization of the monarch rule during the times of Władysław and his son Kazimierz the Great was the period of building the foundations of the unity of Piast monarchy.
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The first half of the 20th century witnessed a complex process leading to the birth of a state unit which united south Slav peoples for the first time in history i.e. the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians. Although the political idea of creating the Yugoslavian state originated simultaneously in the Croat and Serb lands, their respective plans as to how to create a common statehood were diverse. Both Serbs and Croatians were convinced of the superiority of their respective cultures as well as of their historic rights to guide and speak for the rest of the south Slavs and intended to lead the unifying movement. The major integrating element as well as area of conflict for political and spiritual leadership was, in their opinion, the language. This is why they argued about the 'superiority' of different dialects of the Serbo-Croatian language. The author also discusses the Polish participation in the unifying project, namely that of the Lambert Hotel and the envoys of Prince Adam Czartoryski. A key role in this rivalry was played by Bosnia. Finally, though, the emerging Yugoslav idea was to face a sharp confrontation with the emergence of Croat and Serb nationalisms.
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