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 ...

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is probably the world’s best-known political scientist. His fame is such that his name functions as an adjective to denote cunning and unscrupulous behaviour devised to ...

Machiavelli paved the way for modern forms of political enquiry – but to describe him as a political By Maureen Ramsay Machiavelli’s status as a political thinker rests in part on the novelty he ...

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 ...

When Alfredo Maneiro immerses himself in studying the historical significance of Niccolo Machiavelli’s work 1, he proceeds to an “elucidation of the current exercise of philosophy”. In his opinion, ...

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 ...

While many political philosophies are doomed to be consigned to history, over five centuries since Niccolò Machiavelli was born, his vision of a ruthless, manipulative leader is as relevant as ever.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), a political thinker from Renaissance Italy, is best known for his no-nonsense, often harsh approach to power and governance. In his famous book, ‘The Prince’ he argued ...

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 ...

Niccolò Machiavelli is to Europe what Chanakya is to India. He stripped governance of morality and looked at it purely from the point of view of strategy. Victory in politics and warfare was not about ...