DICHOTOMY OF POWERS

Dichotomy of Power studies the long term of the nation-state because of the world's basic political organization and therefore, the foundation of recent diplomacy. Richard A. Matthew argues that this Hegelian construct—once championed because of the rational and preferred basis for global order—developed through a series of dichotomies: the cut and thrust of realism mediated by idealism; coercive gunboat diplomacy balanced by a constitutive model of power; and a collaborative look for a just society. The book analyzes the conceptualization of the nation-state within the Western tradition of political thought, from the classical bifurcation of politics to the postmodern debate about the nation-state because of the ideal mechanism for organizing power during a new global age.