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Ada Palmer
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Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer
Machiavelli’s The Prince was a stabilization memo and job application, not a get-ahead manual, as Italy’s broken political continuity and papal turnover compounded regime instability.His analysis links durable power to credible means, neutral justice, patronage disintermediation, and diplomacy cheaper than war, offering a framework for monitoring how institutions preserve legitimacy under pressure.