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"Machiavelli is known chiefly for The Prince, but his main considerations on politics are in his most profound and later work Discourses on Livy, the complexity, length and style of which have often discouraged new readers and interpreters of Machiavelli, despite its historical and theoretical importance. For this reason, the Discourses has not been given the attention it deserves. This volume of newly commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on Machiavelli overcomes this gap. It is the first collective volume dedicated specifically to this work, ranging over topics such as Machiavelli's republicanism, the relation between liberty and tyranny, the role of religion, his conception of history, his writing style, his view of society as a plural and conflictive body, his suggestion of how a free state should be organized, or his notions of the people and virtù. Contributors include: Jérémie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alessandro Campi, J. Patrick Coby, Marie Gaille, Marco Geuna, Mark Jurdjevic, Cary J. Nederman, Gabriele Pedullà, Diogo Pires Aurélio , Fabio Raimondi, Andre Santos Campos, Miguel Vatter, and Camila Vergara"--

This volume offers a collection of essays useful for analyzing and comparing terrorist movements, especially in relation to Islamic terrorism. But its scope goes well beyond that, offering theoretical insights into the concept of terrorism, debating the p

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Nationalism and Global Justice: A Survey of Some Challenges -- Cosmopolitanism: Cultural, Moral, and Political -- Arguing for Justice. Global Justice and Philosophical Argumentation -- Global and Statist Egalitarianism and Their Woes -- What is so Special about the State? -- On the Applicability of the Ideal of Equality of Opportunity at the Global Level -- Against Relational Views of Justice and Parental Duties -- Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty and Global Justice -- On Kant's Aesthetics and his Progressing Treatment of Peace. -- Rawls' via media: Between Realism and UtopianismRawls's The Law of Peoples as a Guideline for the World as We Know It -- Towards Fair Terms of Economic Cooperation -- Whip Cosmopolitanism into Shape: Assessing Thomas Pogge's Global Resources Dividend as an Instrument of Global Justice -- Backmatter.