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... Machiavelli , says Ter Meulen , may be conven- iently taken as the typical exponent of the new mental forces which ultimately turned Europe toward the conception of more or less absolute princes , with highly organized standing armies ...
... Machiavelli , says Ter Meulen , may be conven- iently taken as the typical exponent of the new mental forces which ultimately turned Europe toward the conception of more or less absolute princes , with highly organized standing armies ...
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... Machiavelli's Prince and in his Art of War , — and we may hope it draws near to the end of its influence . But the fixity of their minds upon this old and almost entirely European idea of international politics as an affair of ...
... Machiavelli's Prince and in his Art of War , — and we may hope it draws near to the end of its influence . But the fixity of their minds upon this old and almost entirely European idea of international politics as an affair of ...
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... Machiavellian spirit . And this power idea carries with it much more mischief than the threat of sudden war and the attendant necessities of armament . It is about the nuclei of the European power systems that the current conceptions of ...
... Machiavellian spirit . And this power idea carries with it much more mischief than the threat of sudden war and the attendant necessities of armament . It is about the nuclei of the European power systems that the current conceptions of ...
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... Machiavellian interpretation . And this school of opinion urges a strenuous attack upon this power idea which still rules the intellectual world of Europe , as the main task of a league- of - nations propaganda . VII Another ...
... Machiavellian interpretation . And this school of opinion urges a strenuous attack upon this power idea which still rules the intellectual world of Europe , as the main task of a league- of - nations propaganda . VII Another ...
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