Machiavelli Influence On The Prince

The U.S. Foreign Policy are standards the United States follows to interact with foreign countries when dealing with important issues in certain areas, such as: economics and politics in society. Niccolo Machiavelli, the famous statesman from Florence, has definitely been a great influence in the U.S Foreign policy. He was also a well known philosopher and the creator of a timeless masterpiece “The Prince”. “The Prince” was written by Niccolo after he was removed from his post in Florence. His doctrine was that by giving the king a set of instructions to have great power he would get him back at his position. But what Niccolo didn't realize was that he created the guidelines of ruling for decades to come. Throughout the history of the United States, “The Prince” had influenced the majority of important men that …show more content…
At first Colombia offered to sell the rights to the Panama Canal to the United States but the prize was much more than the US was willing to pay. Instead of negotiating, the United States used forced by starting a revolution in Panama that left the Panama Canal open to be protected by US warships. When talking about Machiavelli's deceptive fox we can use President Franklin D. Roosevelt as an example. Roosevelt had been deceiving the American people since before Pearl Harbor by telling the people about his “innocent mission” when he was really using German submarines and American destroyers to locate the British submarines. After this, yet another example of Machiavellian Realism was seen with President John Kennedy and Secretary of state Dean Rusk. They stated that the United States wasn't part of the 1961 invasion of Cuba, which was contradictory since the public knew that the CIA was the one that planned all of it. The final and most important controversial issue, which motivated Zinn to exploring this subject, was the lies during the Vietnam