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In his masterpiece, The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli offers a rather pessimistic view on human nature, in which ‘love is held by a chain of obligation which, since men are bad, is broken at every opportunity for personal gain’.
And, as for the type of respect we seek: Machiavelli's advice--that it is better to be feared than loved--will make much less sense in the 21 st century than it did in the 16 th . Goodwill toward America is becoming a national-security asset worth cultivating.
It was Machiavelli, in fact, who invented the notion of disinformation , on which all contemporary politics crucially depends.
It was inevitable that--as the New York Times reports--Shakespeare would come to rival Machiavelli as the most popular adviser in world literature for businessmen who want to lie, cheat, and scheme their way to the top.
If they're tired of feeling inferior to the latter task, I highly recommend my new book, What Would Machiavelli Do?