DOCTRINE OF DICHOTOMY OF POWERS

Dichotomy of Power considers the fate of the nation-state as the world's entire political organization and the establishment of modern international relations. Richard A. Matthew contends that this Hegelian construct—once championed as the normal and preferred reason for the worldwide request—created through a progression of divisions:

• The cut and push of realism mediated by idealism
• Coercive power politics adjusted by a constitutive model of power
• A collaborative search for an equitable society

The book examines the conceptualization of the nation-state in the Western custom of political idea, from the classical bifurcation of politics to the postmodern debate about the nation-state as the ideal system for arranging power in another worldwide age.