"The Prince"

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This paper discusses concepts from Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince." The paper compares the leadership in the United States to Machiavelli's prince and suggests that America has been able to retain Machiavellian-style leadership on the world's stage. The paper discusses international relations in terms of Machiavelli's views and specifically focuses on economic or political power.

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"The prime targets of trans-state terrorist organizations include powerful nation-states like the US and Great Britain. However, traditional nation-states with powerful militaries will continue to have an advantage over trans-national terrorism. Military might has proliferated among non-state entities such as terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, whose population is not situated within any geo-political boundaries. The terrorist network serves as an alternative military body to supplement that of the nation-state. Yet because the trans-state terrorist group does not exhibit other key features of Machiavellian statehood, such as land, non-state entities can never become powerful in the Machiavellian sense."

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• "Countries without Armies." Army.com. Retrieved Dec 10, 2006 from http://www.army.com/countires_without_armies.html
• "Largest Military Expenditures, 2005." InfoPlease. Retrieved Dec 10, 2006 from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904504.html
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• Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. Excerpts in Jacobus, Lee A. A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Boston: Bedford-St. Martins, 2006.

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