The purpose of this essay is to offer a new description of Machiavelli's legacy to the political and philosophical discourse of modernity. The author takes as his starting point Strauss's interpretation of this legacy because he proposes its strongest version, one which is adopted, in its...

The first section of this paper will further define political conditionality and discuss some of the problems that arise with its use. The second section will review how conditionality came to be adopted by the union. The way in which the EU has implemented conditionality will be discussed in...