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Matthew, Richard Anthony.

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Politics divided: Self-determination, self-preservation and the nation-state.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Politics divided: Self-determination, self-preservation and the nation-state./
Author:	Matthew, Richard Anthony.
Description:	446 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1377.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-04A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Law and Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9026413

Politics divided: Self-determination, self-preservation and the nation-state.
Matthew, Richard Anthony.

Politics divided: Self-determination, self-preservation and the nation-state. - 446 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1377.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1990.

An important debate in the field of international politics concerns the status of the nation-state. Many scholars argue that the nation-state, or its conceptual equivalent, is necessary and desirable. Others argue that a host of contemporary forces are undermining the nation-state and require that we think in terms of alternative political arrangements.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017399
Political Science, International Law and Relations.

Politics divided: Self-determination, self-preservation and the nation-state.
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520 $a An important debate in the field of international politics concerns the status of the nation-state. Many scholars argue that the nation-state, or its conceptual equivalent, is necessary and desirable. Others argue that a host of contemporary forces are undermining the nation-state and require that we think in terms of alternative political arrangements.
520 $a My dissertation seeks to contribute to this debate by studying the period of nation-state formation in Europe. My focus is on the distinction between domestic and international politics. The former is widely perceived as providing a secure and predictable environment, informed by moral and ethical principles, regulated by law. The latter is often portrayed as anarchic, or as a loose society of states, in which moral and ethical considerations are secondary and law does not rule.
520 $a My thesis is that in the Middle Ages politics was divided into two modes, a protective mode concerned with security affairs, and a constitutive mode that addressed questions of meaning, especially moral and ethical issues. Thus the nation-state might be described as the site in which the two modes of politics are reconciled. My research indicates, however, that the reconciliation was imperfect, and that in consequence the distinctions often made between the domestic and international realms obscure important relationships between the two.
520 $a I begin by noting that this division of politics is reflected in contemporary theories of nation and state. Chapter 2 argues that these two understandings of politics appeared in Augustine's City of God, and describes key moments in their evolution in the Middle Ages. Chapters 3 to 6 consider relevant works by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, in order to disclose the manner in which these two traditions evolved, converged and conflicted, how and why they were reconciled in the nation-state, and the important connections that they retained to the world beyond the nation-state.
520 $a In the conclusion, I suggest some of the implications this understanding of the nation-state and system of nation-states has for three issues: the future viability of the nation-state, the status of ethics and morality in international politics, and the European project of 1992.
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