The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra

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The First Great Political Realist is a succinct and penetrating analysis of one of the ancient worlds foremost political realists Kautilya. Kautilyas 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 Tsu. Roger Boesches excellent commentary on Kautilyas voluminous text draws out the essential realist arguments for modern political analysis and demonstrates the continued relevance of Kautilyas work to modern Indian strategic thinking and our understanding of the relationship between politics and economics.