The best he might get is unification on the German model of 1990, with Belarus's six regions joining Russia's existing 89.
That will be unification of a sort.
What it could not abide would be unification by force.
Some fear unification might be costly: GDP per head for Turkish-Cypriots is half as big as for Greek-Cypriots, and taxpayers may have to compensate property-owners.
Still other cases involve what might be described as genuine physical unification, where phenomena previously regarded as having quite different causes or explanations are shown to be the result of a common set of mechanisms or causal relationships.
In unification accounts, laws might be the ultimate explanatory factors, but we often connect laws with physical systems via models.
Now, again, unity is the principle by which the unification of certain representations might be explained (cf. SW V: 307).
The results of model (I) and (III) indicate that the demographic effect might be stronger or only existent in the post-unification period (compared to the pre-unification period).
Another fundamental difficulty with the unificationist account derives from its reliance on what might be called a "winner take all" conception of unification.
The first was the drive toward unification, toward a single, master social science, whatever it might be called.
