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The Struggle Between Virtù and Fortuna: Bridging Machiavelli’s Ideas with Present-Day Concerns about the Relationship between Nature and Politics The Struggle Between Virtù and Fortuna: Bridging Machiavelli’s Ideas with Present-Day Concerns about the Relationship between Nature and Politics
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The Concept of Decentralization in Environmental Political Theory The Concept of Decentralization in Environmental Political Theory
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Machiavelli’s Reflections on Politically Decentralized Renaissance Italy Machiavelli’s Reflections on Politically Decentralized Renaissance Italy
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Machiavelli’s Critique of Decentralization Machiavelli’s Critique of Decentralization
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Machiavelli’s Defense of Decentralization Machiavelli’s Defense of Decentralization
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Green Views on Decentralization Reconsidered in Light of Machiavelli’s Discourses Green Views on Decentralization Reconsidered in Light of Machiavelli’s Discourses
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Notes Notes
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15 Confucius: How Non-Western Political Theory Contributes to Understanding the Environmental Crisis
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3 Niccolò Machiavelli: Rethinking Decentralization’s Role in Green Theory
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Published:January 2015
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Abstract
Francisco Seijo draws on Niccolò Machiavelli to take issue with contemporary greens who argue that radical decentralization – in the form of eco-anarchism or bioregionalism – is most conducive to ecological sustainability. Machiavelli sees changing fortune as destabilizing the conditions for peaceful coexistence among small polities and providing an impetus for political expansion. Drawing on lessons from Machiavelli’s account of Rome, Seijo argues that the challenges of security and large-scale ecological problems make a loose, federative partnership between a large central government and its constituent smaller polities superior to radical decentralization. However, Seijo rejects Machiavelli’s emphasis on expansion as violating notions of ecological limits and ultimately finds a federative model in Elinor Ostrom’s call for multi-level governance of common pool resources.
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