ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the strong tendency toward the paradigm of bipolarity which is manifested in monotheistic dualism and explores its impact on contemporary world politics and international relations. It also demonstrates that at the international level the class structure of the world is often defined in cultural rather than economic terms. The dichotomy can take a variety of forms--the native versus the foreigner, the friend versus the foe, the familiar versus the strange, the Orient versus the Occident, the East versus the West, the North versus the South and the developed versus the developing countries. The two ideas--culture of politics and monotheism--were fused in the earlier versions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. God was conceived in the image of the king, often complete with a throne. The God of Christianity has doctrinally been regarded as a god of love, and his Son has been regarded as a Prince of Peace.
