This book counters a range of assumptions commonly held about Marx’s views of nationalism and internationalism, not least by twentieth-century marxists themselves. It shows that Marx did not envisage the abolition of national communities or nation states; that the politics of nationalism in...
The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli—arguably the most misunderstood thinker of all time—fought to change his corrupt world.
Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be...
A myth-shattering portrait of one of history’s most celebrated, most notorious political thinkers: Niccolo Machiavelli.
Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Niccolo Machiavelli has become a byword for political amorality. But in Be Like The Fox, Erica Benner reveals...
Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus came from the study of the American and French constituent assemblies in the late eighteenth century,...
Esser volpe” offre un resoconto avvincente e accurato della vita di uno dei pensatori politici più celebrati e controversi della storia: Niccolò Machiavelli. E lo fa nella forma di una biografia non convenzionale, animata dal ritmo e dall’energia della narrazione romanzesca....
Machiavelli’s Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the “Machiavellian” maxim...
Why did Machiavelli write the Prince - and why did religious and political authorities find it so threatening? Five hundred years on, this book tries to answer these questions.
In the first detailed, chapter-by-chapter reading of the Prince in any language, Erica Benner shows that the book is a...
Co-written with Karen Barkey and Sudipta Kaviraj, published by Oxford University Press.
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Revises prevailing understandings of simplistic East-West; Secular-Religious; and Democratic-Authoritarian binaries.
Presents a three-way comparison between Turkey, India and Pakistan
Applies a unique...
A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation...
Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much better explanatory grasp of national phenomena than is usually supposed, and that the reasoning behind...
