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[email protected]. 1 ALAN RYAN: ON POLITICS, BOOK ONE STUDY GUIDE, 2013-14 Steven Alan Samson INTRODUCTION: THINKING ABOUT POLITICS Outline A. RELEVANCE OF GREEK FORMS TO A GLOBAL AGE (xi-xix) 1. R. W. and A. J. Carlyle, History of Mediaeval Political Theory in the West 2. Question of Intellectual Unity 3. Herodotus a. Whether the Persians had, in the end, defeated the Greeks 1) Greek view of Persia: a system of slaves b. G. W. F. Hegel on oriental despotism c. Persia as the prototype of the modern nation-state d. Essence of the modern state 1) Centralized bureaucracy 2) Bureaucratic management 3) Efficient delivery of public services e.