The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra

by Roger Boesche

Book Overview

The First Great Political Realist is a succinct and penetrating 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 Tsu. Roger Boesche's excellent commentary on Kautilya's voluminous text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739106074
• ISBN13: 9780739106075
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"