Niccolò Machiavelli as Machiavelli had himself done, despite also explaining how they could sometimes work). This became the theme of much future political discourse in Europe during the 17th century. This includes the Catholic Counter Reformation writers summarised by Bireley: Giovanni Botero, Justus Lipsius, Carlo Scribani, Adam Contzen, Pedro de Ribadeneira, and Diego Saavedra Fajardo. These authors criticized Machiavelli, but also followed him in many ways. They accepted the need for a prince to be concerned with reputation, and even a need for cunning and deceit, but compared to Machiavelli, and like later modernist writers, they emphasized economic progress much more than
Michael Haas (political scientist) War Crimes" (2009). Michael Haas (political scientist) Michael Haas (born 1938, Detroit, Michigan) is an American political scientist. Haas received his cum laude baccalaureate degree at Stanford University in 1959. Yale University awarded him a master's degree in 1960. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1964. All degrees were in political science. Under the direction of his thesis adviser, Robert C. North, his Ph.D. dissertation, "Some Societal Correlates of International Political Behavior" demonstrated that countries go to war after serious unemployment results in increased suicide. During his last year of work on his doctoral degree, he taught temporarily at