{"id":141,"date":"2012-02-21T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/escape-from-machiavellianism"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:06:05","slug":"escape-from-machiavellianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/escape-from-machiavellianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape From Machiavellianism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><div class=\"photo-wrap photo-xid-6a00d8341ebaf653ef0168e7fe50e3970c photo-full \" id=\"photo-xid-6a00d8341ebaf653ef0168e7fe50e3970c\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/data\/journal\/RAP_website_masthead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image from journals.cambridge.org\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341ebaf653ef0168e7fe50e3970c image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/law.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341ebaf653ef0168e7fe50e3970c-800wi\" title=\"image from journals.cambridge.org\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=8418136&amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;fileId=S1755048311000460\" target=\"_blank\">Escape From Machiavellianism? Thomist Themes in Twentieth Century Political Realism<\/a>,<br \/>by Daniel Edward Young<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Political realism is often seen as vulnerable to the \u201cMachiavellian temptation,\u201d that is, to the bracketing out of moral principles in the conduct of statecraft. In this article, I explore the use of Thomist themes in the writings of Martin Wight (1913\u20131972), a seminal figure of the so-called English School of international relations theory. Scholars have commented on the Christian realist roots of the English School, but it is little noted that Wight&#039;s most famous essay, \u201cWestern Values in International Relations,\u201d uses the language of Thomism. By exploring the use of Thomist concepts in Wight&#039;s thought and the parallels to be found in the thought of his contemporary, Thomist political philosopher Jacques Maritain, I show how he seeks to escape the realist temptation to Machiavellianism. I then go on to sketch out the possible shortcomings of this approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape From Machiavellianism? Thomist Themes in Twentieth Century Political Realism,by Daniel Edward Young Abstract Political realism is often seen as vulnerable to the \u201cMachiavellian temptation,\u201d that is, to the bracketing out of moral principles in the conduct of statecraft. In this article, I explore the use of Thomist themes in the writings of Martin Wight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}