@article{THESIS,
      recid = {3101},
      author = {Xu, Mian},
      title = {Sinews of Power: How does Machiavelli reconcile ethics and  political realism in his theory of inter-state politics?},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2021-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Machiavelli has long been held as one of the inventors of  international realism who separated politics from ethics.  This article questions this conventional view and argues  that Machiavelli is in fact a highly ethical thinker who  reconciles ethics with realism in a coherent international  relations theory. Acknowledging the desires for freedom  innate in human nature and understanding men’s consent to  rule based on free will as a part of political power,  Machiavelli views the two ethical standards – respect for  desires for freedom and rule of law – as constitutive of  state power that is indispensable for balance-of-power  politics between states. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3101},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3101},
}