Dichotomy of Power: Nation Versus State in World Politics

By Richard Anthony Matthew

Dichotomy of Power studies the future of the nation-state as the world's basic political organization and the foundation of modern international relations. Richard A. Matthew argues that this Hegelian construct-once championed as the rational and preferred basis for global order-developed through a series of dichotomies: the cut and thrust of realism mediated by idealism; coercive power politics balanced by a constitutive mode of power; and a collaborative search for a just society. The book analyzes the conceptualization of the nation-state in the Western tradition of political thought, from the classical bifurcation of politics to the postmodern debate about the nation-state as the ideal mechanism for organizing power in a new global age.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739103504
• ISBN13: 9780739103500
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"