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.

Niccolò Machiavelli was a political thinker who lived in Florence, Italy.He was active as a diplomat in the Republic of ...

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 ...

In 1513, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was arrested and tortured by the Medici. This was for his alleged role in a plot against the autocratic family, which, with papal and Spanish help, had ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...