sometimes ruthless leadership to promote order and peace. Those within the Enlightenment saw the hereditary monarchies last gasps and saw how ?civilized? man granted leadership the authority to govern, but only to the extent that was allowable by the hoi polloi. So to does the contemporary author notice the current state of the individual, the nation-state, and the interaction of these entities upon the world stage. The contemporary academic sees the evolution of a bi-polar era, to a unipolar…