The First Great Political Realist

Kautilya and His Arthashastra

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Roger Boesche

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A succinct analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya. Kautilya's treatise "Arthashastra" stands as one of the great political books of the ancient world, its ideas on the science of politics strikingly similar to those of Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Clausewitz, and even Sun Tzu. Roger Boesche's commentary on Kautilya's voluminous text draws out the essential realist arguments for modern political analysis and demonstrates the continued relevance of Kautilya's work to modern Indian strategic thinking and our understanding of the relationship between politics and economics. Seeking to strike a balance between textual analysis and secondary scholarship, Boesche's work is a contribution to the study of ancient Indian history, Eastern political thought, and international relations.

Author Biography:

Roger Boesche is the Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College. He is the author of Theories of Tyranny: Plato to Arendt (1996), The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville (1987), and Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society (1985).

Release date Australia

April 8th, 2003

Author

Roger Boesche

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

142

Dimensions

151x230x10

ISBN-13

9780739106075

Product ID

3621064

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