Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Historical Background Chapter 3 A Science of Politics for a King Chapter 4 The Spy State Chapter 5 The Economy: A Socialist Monarchy Chapter 6 Foreign Policy and War Chapter 7 Power, Advancement, and a Theory of History Part 8 Conclusion

About the Author

Roger Boesche is the Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College. He is the author of Theories of Tyranny: Plato to Arendt (1996), The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville (1987), and Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society (1985).

Reviews

This is a valuable and insightful study of one of the world's neglected classics of political philosophy. Boesche is to be commended for bringing Kautilya's masterpiece to the attention of the Western reader.
*Brian K. Smith, University of California, Riverside*