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In talking about world affairs we would seem to face the ‘usual dilemma’ of a ‘trade-off’ between ‘analytical stringency’ and the attempt to grasp reality ‘in all its complexity’ (Hettne, 1994, p. 2). Hans Morgenthau once likened this trade-off to stuffing jellyfish into pigeon-holes. It’s a graphic image. Put in such terms the process is clearly difficult and messy. Morgenthau’s metaphor depicts well, though, the dichotomy between the analytic ordering task and real-world chaos. On the one hand we have reality, in human terms uniformed and indeterminate. On the other hand we have our more or less stringent categories, constructed so as to give reality some meaning and shape (George, 1994).
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Pettman, R. (1999). Globalism and Regionalism: The Costs of Dichotomy. In: Hettne, B., Inotai, A., Sunkel, O. (eds) Globalism and the New Regionalism. The New Regionalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27268-6_7
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