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Einführung . . 7
1. Der Preußische Osten als geteilter Raum . . 7
2. Räume, Grenzen, Menschen . . 10

I. Überblick
1. Polen und Preußen zwischen Tilsit und Wien . . 19
2. Deutsche und polnische Nation nach dem Wiener Kongress . . 26
3. Restauration und Reformen . . 32
4. Von der Völkerfreundschaft zum nationalen Antagonismus . . 37
5. Zwischen staatlicher Integration und nationaler Autonomie . . 59
6. Moderner Staat - moderne Nationen . . 70
7. Der Erste Weltkrieg als Epochenwende . . 82

II. Fragen und Perspektiven
1. Deutsche und polnische Gesellschaft: Verflechtungen und Divergenzen . . 103
2. Nationale Identitäten und kulturelle Verflechtungen . . 129
3. Nation, Staat und Öffentlichkeit . . 154
4. Grenzregionen und transkulturelle Räume . . 184
5. Perspektiven der Forschung und Ausblick . . 202

Literaturverzeichnis . . 209
Register . . 215

INTRODUCTION . . 1
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR STABILIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION . . 8
CROSS-CUTTING PRINCIPLES . . 12
HIGH-LEVEL TRADE-OFFS, GAPS, AND CHALLENGES . . 26
FUNDAMENTALS OF A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH . . 30

END STATES
SAFE AND SECURE ENVIRONMENT . . 38
RULE OF LAW . . 64
STABLE GOVERNANCE . . 98
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY . . 132
SOCIAL WELL-BEING . . 162

APPENDICES
A. RESOURCE LIST . . 196
B. PARTICIPANTS IN REVIEW PROCESS . . 223
C. SUMMARY OF STRATEGIC FRAMEWORKS SURVEYED . . 225
D. SNAPSHOT OF COMPONENTS FROM OVERARCHING RESOURCES . . 226
E. ACRONYMS AND GLOSSARY OF SELECTED KEY TERMS . . 227

Foreword . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xiii

Introduction . . 1
1 Behind the Curve: Institutional Resistance to Human Rights . . 23
2 Political and Legal Constraints: The Board of Executive Directors and the Articles of Agreement . . 51
3 Bureaucratic Obstacles: A Clash of Expertise Within the Organizational Culture . . 75
4 Reconciling Interpretive Gaps: Economizing Human Rights . . 107
5 Conclusion . . 133

Notes . . 157
Bibliography . . 169
Index . . 183

INTRODUCTION . . 11
THE PROBLEM OF LITHUANIA'S INDEPENDENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE USSR . . 16
THE VIABILITY OF THE 11 MARCH ACT PUT TO THE TEST . . 22
THE COURSE OF LITHUANIA'S PARALLEL NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE USSR AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Phase I: from the end of Lithuania's economic blockade on 1 July 1990 to the armed aggression of 13 January 1991 . . 34
Phase II: from the armed aggression of 13 January 1991 to the international recognition of Lithuania and the end of the Soviet Union's existence . . 57
Negotiations between the Republic of Lithuania and the Russian Federation regarding the withdrawal of the occupation troops from Lithuania in 1991-1992 . . 74
CLOSING REMARKS . . 93

Presentazione . . IX
Introduzione . . 3

La metafora solare nella concezione neoplatonica del Principio . . 9
Sophia und Logos in der Philosophischen Theologie des Dionysius Areopagita . . 25
Il duplice bene supremo di Aristotele . . 43
Maestri dell'apologià. "Scrivere in difesa della fede, senza perdere occasioni" . . 67
Port-Royal e la «questione della filosofia» . . 85
Il Logos Eracliteo . . 103
«Vedere il bello delle scienze». Eros, bellezza e matematiche nel Simposio di Fiatone . . 109
Henologia e oblio dell'Essere. A proposito di una figura speculativa centrale in Heidegger . . 123
Aristo tele e i miti pitagorici . . 147
La recezione delle argomentazioni etiche di Eudosso di Cnido tra l'Accademia e il Liceo . . 157
Ruoli e funzioni della donna nelle Leggi di Platone . . 201
Asimmetria e non-reversibilità nella metafisica di Platone . . 219
Politik und philosophische Erziehung . . 233
Pensiero greco e messaggio evangelico nell'interpretazione di Giovanni Reale, a partire da una riletura del Commento al Vangelo di Giovanni di Agostino . . 245
Medioevo e Filosofia . . 277
Ritornare ad Atene. Gli ottantenni di Giovanni Reale . . 285
Disputas sobre las sombras de la eikasia y las estatuas de la pistis . . 293
Jenseits von Sein unci Nichtsein: Wie kann man fur Transzendenz argumentieren? . . 311
Nochmals: Für die Frühdatierung des platonischen Vertrags „Über das Gute" bei Aristoxenos . . 325
Legge ed essere. Il Minosse e il pensiero politico platonico . . 355
Platone nel Liber Metaphysicus di Vico . . 365
In margine a un paradigma delle interpretazioni di Platone: Schleiermacher tra ermneutica e dialettica . . 381
Presupuestos semànticos en la defensa aristotèlica del Principio de no contradicción en Metafisica . . 399
Il principio del disordine nei dialoghi finali di Platone . . 415
La sofferenza, l'eros e l'Odisseo di Platone . . 415
Tra etere e motore immobile: Teofrasto testimone di Aristotele . . 469
Una particolare ricezione della tradizione metafisica greca nel realismo platonizzante cristiano: Giovanni Duns Scoto e la logica non-classica . . 497
Dalla persuasione socratica alla dialettica platonica: Apologia, Gorgia e Fedro a confronto . . 515
Ontologia della finitezza. Sul rapporto tra Platonismo e Cristianesimo . . 535
La Storia della filosofia antica di Giovanni Reale come programma di ricerca . . 573
Il filosofare di Parmenide . . 587
Limiti del metodo storico-critico: i principi dell'ermeneutica di Reale e l'Aristoteles di Jaeger . . 617
Platone e la visione alfabetica . . 635
Zum Kontext Der Platonischen ... Die Ausbildung Der 'Philosophenkonige' und des 'Nachtlichen Rates' im Vergleich . . 643
Uscire dalla caverna. La metafora della luce dalla metafisica all'illuminismo . . 661
L'uomo come enigma esistenziale. Personalismo sperimentale e ontologia della relazionalità . . 677
Geometria more ethico nel Corpus Aristotelicum. Il caso di Etica Nicomachea, VI 5, e Problemi, XXX 71 . . 727
Alcune considerazioni sulla sospensione del giudizio : il silenzio nella tradizione ebraica scettica . . 745

Einführung . . 7
1. Der Preußische Osten als geteilter Raum . . 7
2. Räume, Grenzen, Menschen . . 10

I. Überblick
1. Polen und Preußen zwischen Tilsit und Wien . . 19
2. Deutsche und polnische Nation nach dem Wiener Kongress . . 26
3. Restauration und Reformen . . 32
4. Von der Völkerfreundschaft zum nationalen Antagonismus . . 37
5. Zwischen staatlicher Integration und nationaler Autonomie . . 59
6. Moderner Staat - moderne Nationen . . 70
7. Der Erste Weltkrieg als Epochenwende . . 82

II. Fragen und Perspektiven
1. Deutsche und polnische Gesellschaft: Verflechtungen und Divergenzen . . 103
2. Nationale Identitäten und kulturelle Verflechtungen . . 129
3. Nation, Staat und Öffentlichkeit . . 154
4. Grenzregionen und transkulturelle Räume . . 184
5. Perspektiven der Forschung und Ausblick . . 202

Literaturverzeichnis . . 209
Register . . 215

Acknowledgments . . ix

   Introduction . . 1
1. The Wild Place, 1933-1945 . . 20
2. The Seigneurs of Wildflecken, 1945-1947 . . 55
3. Keeping Refugees Occupied, 1945-1948 . . 97
4. These People, 1947-1949 . . 142
5. A Victory for Democracy, 1949-1952 . . 181
   Conclusion . . 223

Notes . . 233
Bibliography . . 259
Index . . 271

Acknowledgements . . ix
Introduction . . xi

1 What Is Capitalism and Why It Is a Problem . . 1
2 Ways Not to Think About Getting Past Capitalism . . 39
3 The Reproduction of Capitalist Processes . . 59
4 Getting Past Capitalism... or How to Fight a Hydra in a Fog . . 89
5 Alternatives to Capitalism . . 101
6 Practical Steps for Building a Movement to Get Past Capitalism . . 127

Bibliography . . 159
Index . . 167

List of figures . . x
List of tables . . xiv
List of boxes . . xvii
Notes on contributors . . xviii
Foreword . . xx
Preface . . xxi
Abbreviations . . xxiv

1 Introduction . . 1
Asia's rising inequality amid rapid economic growth . . 1
Inequality of outcome versus inequality of opportunity . . 2
Why rising inequality matters . . 5
Summary of key findings . . 11

PART I - Regional overview and synthesis . . 19

2 Asia's income inequalities: recent trends . . 21
Data sources and estimation methods . . 21
Recent trends of income inequality in developing Asia . . 23
Asia's inequality in a global context . . 31
Summary . . 35

3 What drives Asia's rising inequality? . . 37
A framework of thinking about income inequality . . 37
Key drivers of rising inequality in Asia . . 38
Increasing skill premiums . . 42
Declining share of labor income . . 44
Spatial inequality . . 48
Summary . . 55

4 Inequality of human opportunities in developing Asia . . 58
Introduction . . 58
Human Opportunity Index . . 59
Contribution of individual circumstance variables . . 60
Empirical analysis . . 61
Contribution of circumstance variables to inequality of opportunity . . 64
Conclusions . . 74

5 Confronting Asia's rising inequality: policy options . . 79
Introduction . . 79
Efficient fiscal policy . . 81
Reducing regional inequality . . 89
Making growth more employment-friendly . . 92
Toward inclusive growth in Asia . . 97

PART II - Background studies . . 101

6 Inclusive growth and gender inequality in Asia's labor markets . . 103
Introduction . . 103
Links between economic growth and gender inequality . . 104
Gender inequality in Asian labor markets: macro-level evidence . . 108
Drivers of women's labor force participation: micro-level evidence . . 116
Conclusions and policy implications . . 126

7 Structural change and inequality: a conceptual overview with reference to developing Asia . . 134
Introduction . . 134
Conceptual overview of the relationship between inequality and structural change . . 136
Inequality-structural change nexus in the advanced economies . . 141
Analytical review of the inequality-structural change nexus in developing Asia . . 145
Concluding observations and policy implications . . 150

8 Institutions and economic inequality in Asia: disentangling policy and political structure . . 156
Introduction . . 156
Democracy and Inequality . . 159
Labor/wage rules and inequality . . 162
Asian inequality . . 163
The special case of land reform and inequality . . 166
The urban-rural gap . . 167
Unexamined assumptions . . 168
Conclusion and future challenges . . 169

9 Government fiscal policies and redistribution in Asian countries . . 173
Introduction . . 173
Review of the literature on the effectiveness of redistributive fiscal policies . . 173
Empirical estimates of the impact of fiscal policies on income inequality in Asia . . 181
Improving the effectiveness of fiscal policies in Asia . .186
Conclusions and policy lessons . . 197

10 Commitment to equity: a diagnostic framework to assess governments' fiscal policy . . 202
Introduction: what is the Commitment to Equity Assessment? . . 202
A diagnostic framework . . 203
Definitions and data requirements . . 209
An assessment of fiscal policies and redistribution in Brazil . . 214
Conclusion . . 222

11 Growth policy/strategy and inequality in developing Asia . . 228
Introduction . . 228
Inclusive growth policy/strategy: a comparison of the People's Republic of China and India . . 229
In-depth analysis of inequality-growth nexus in the case of the Repubic of Korea . . 240
Concluding observations and policy implications . . 252

12 A note on the middle class in Latin America . . 257
Introduction . . 257
Why another note on the middle class . . 258
What constitutes a middle-class society? . . 261
Some characteristics of the Latin American and Caribbean middle class . . 267
Concluding reflections . . 283

13 Urbanization and inequality in Asia . . 288
Introduction . . 288
Inequality index, data, and basic trends . . 289
Accounting for changes in national inequality . . 292  
Urbanization and the turning point . . 295
Summary and conclusions . . 301

14 Inequality in Southeast Asia . . 303
Introduction . . 303
Recent trends of inequality in Southeast Asia . . 304
Dimensions of inequality . . 306
Structural and policy drivers of inequality in Southeast Asia . . 312
Recent policy developments . . 321
Policy lessons . . 325

15 Income inequality and redistributive policy in the People's Republic of China . . 329
Introduction . . 329
Data and methodology . . 330
Dimensions of the People's Republic of China's income inequality . . 332
Determinants of inequality: regression-based decomposition . . 335
Recent government policies addressing income inequality . . 337
Conclusions and policy implications . . 347

16 Drivers of inequality in Pakistan . . 351
Introduction . . 351
Recent trends of income and non-income inequality . . 351
Decomposition of inequality . . 357
Structural and policy drivers of inequality . . 360
Recent policy developments in reducing inequality . . 365
Policy lessons . . 370

17 Accounting for inequality in India: evidence from household expenditures . . 373
Introduction . . 373
Data . . 376
Poverty and inequality in India: 1983 to 2004 . . 377
Accounting for inequality between 1993 and 2004 . . 381
Concluding remarks . . 402

Index . . 408