AFTER SO MUCH has been said about Machiavelli, and so much that should be unsaid, one might be surprised to hear that there is anything new to say at all. Yet John McCormick offers a plausible and ...

The political theory of Niccolò Machiavelli emerged amid the upheavals of Renaissance Italy, where the contest for power among city-states demanded novel approaches to governance and statecraft.

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MACHIAVELLISM is the name given to a doctrine which might be summed up as follows: The supreme law of politics is success. Politics, therefore, cannot recognize any moral law as binding. What is bad ...

Of all the writers in the “realist” canon—from Thucydides and Hobbes to Morgenthau and Mearsheimer—it is Niccolo Machiavelli who retains the greatest capacity to shock. In 1513, banished from his ...

Machiavelli. Image: Flickr/Robert ScarthWhen politicians are described today as ‘Machiavellian’ the implication is that they are no more than cynical graspers at power for its own sake. Most ...

What if Machiavelli was neither a teacher of evil, nor simply a man of his time, but rather a radical democrat who boldly broke with a centuries-old tradition of denigrating the masses? This is the ...

An introduction to Machiavelli's infamous view of power politics By Maureen Ramsay Machiavelli is a pivotal figure in the history of political thought. His views of human nature, society and ...

Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biographyby Corrado Vivanti (Princeton, £19.95) Bobbitt draws parallels between Machiavelli’s life and his own, careering from the academy to government to the ...

The past few months have seen a flurry of celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s classic leadership “how to” text, The Prince. It may be five centuries old, but The Prince ...