ABSTRACT
Machiavelli discusses the politics of republics in his Discourses on Livy. The second book of the Discourses focuses specifically on ‘the measures the Roman people took to increase their empire’, but Machiavelli mixes reflections about foreign and domestic policy freely throughout his work.1 If one combs through the Discourses, one finds thoughts on international politics sprinkled throughout the work. Although these thoughts come from an assortment of locations, they combine to form a clear argument in which each point leads, seemingly inevitably, to the next.
