Machiavelli and the neoconservatives: the empire in game

The concept on empire focuses the debate on contemporary international relations, and mainly on the United States' post 9/11 foreign policy. In terms of philosophical analysis, this means putting into fundamental perspective the imperial purpose as a part of solution to the problem of peace keeping in the world today. Through his own vision and his underground influence upon the neoconservatives, Machiavelli's thought appears as the matrix of this political operation. According to him, the imperial modus of international action control makes sense as the most tested logical answer to the permanent uncertainty and ambiguity of the world. It reveals at the same time its own brittleness, which can only be assumed with a radical strategic approach of foreign policy.