Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Prince Seminar Response 3

One of the things that I would advise the president is that they should try their best to stop the problems at the source as quick as they can. Even though 21st century nations don't acquire land, they need to develop allies and friends that they can trust. They also need to develop relations with countries in which they disagree and try their best to make good terms with them. In order to do this, I would suggest as Machiavelli would and go to the region to visit the people and calm the public opinion. Addressing problems at the source is the best thing to do and that ensures that they won't get out of hand.
 
Another thing that I would advise is to be more feared than loved by the other nations. Sure they shouldn't be ready to go to war with you, but they should respect you enough not to mess with you and bother your interests. If other nations do this, then you will gain more national respect from nations all over the world.
 
The last thing that I would suggest to the president is that national pride is a huge thing to maintaining the national interests. Like in the book when Machiavelli said that national troops are the best and can be trusted, national workers and industries are important to national moral as a whole. And if you build up this national trust, people will be more open and support the government and their interests both domestically and foreign.

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