Volume 49, Number 17 · November 7, 2002
The Modern Machiavelli
By Paul Kennedy
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
by John J. Mearsheimer
Norton, 555 pp., $27.95
No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli
by Jonathan Haslam
Yale University Press, 260 pp., $30.00
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
by Philip Bobbitt
Knopf, 919 pp., $40.00
In the magnificent Gothic church of Santa Croce, right in the heart of Florence, tourists gape at what is perhaps the most celebrated array of monuments in any building in the world. Galileo's tomb rests across from that of Michelangelo, Giotto's frescoes lie close to Brunelleschi's crucifix, and the memorial to Dante is prominent. Yet few if any of the earnest visitors from Japan, Scandinavia, and elsewhere rarely stay long before the nearby tomb of someone who, in the world of national and international politics, arguably made the greatest impact of any thinker in modern history—Niccolò Machiavelli.
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