SOME lessons of history demand constant remembrance, lest we fall into the same pitfalls. Edmund Burke captured this sentiment when he warned that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to ...

Introduction: This study presents a comparative examination of the concept of the balance of power as addressed by two different schools of ...

The realist theory of international relations dates back to the fifth century BC, where the general foundations were laid by the philosopher Thucydides, rooted in his experiences from the ...

We are shocked; Machiavelli would have nodded with understanding ... Lenin had already done violence to the theory of the “withering away of the state” in order to justify his choice of ...

Lately, one particularly adrenaline-inducing travel tip has made major waves on social media: Enter the “airport theory,” which posits that you need only arrive at the airport by 15 or 20 ...

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine political philosopher whose writings gave rise to the term “Machiavellian,” a word that describes the use of manipulation and deception in an the-ends ...

Noted as much for his pioneering studies of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli as for his revisionist ... in early modern anglophone political theory”. This he sets out to demonstrate ...

Campbell has bits and pieces of some economic theory in the back of his head, a less-than-coherent view of late capitalism as combining mass entertainment, the media, and the art market into a ...