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2007-2008 Fellows

Mikael Hörnqvist

Uppsala University, Sweden
Department of History of Science and Ideas

MIKAEL HÖRNQVIST teaches at Uppsala University. He is the author of Machiavelli and Empire (Cambridge UP 2004) and a number of articles on Renaissance political thought. His current research deals with pre-modern, modern and postmodern conceptions of empire with a particular focus on Machiavelli, Tocqueville and contemporary debates on American global hegemony.

Homepage: http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/HORNQ.htm

Project Summary

THE INVISIBLE STATESMAN: EMPIRE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FROM MACHIAVELLI TO TOCQUEVILLE

The project explores a largely neglected tradition of republican and liberal thinking on justice, liberty and empire. In particular, it focuses on how justice in the thought of Niccolò Machiavelli and Alexis de Tocqueville is seen as the outcome of a successful and judicial balancing of the conflicting demands of equality, liberty and democracy on the one hand, and empire, expansion or progress on the other.