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‘There is no significant difference between the theories of negotiation of Guicciardini and Richelieu’. Discuss.
Nearly half a century separate Cardinal Richelieu and Francesco Guicciardini but the parallels between the two men betray the similarities in their understanding of power politics and theories of negotiation. Richelieu may have operated outside the Renaissance and Guicciardini from its Florentine apex, but both were influenced by the developing political theories of early modern Europe and the realist raison d’ état of Machiavelli; Guicciardini counted Machiavelli as a friend, and Richelieu was his intellectual descendent – the first politician to prosecute state national interest above notions of medieval universal Christian morality.
In what ways did the Napoleonic wars transform the governance of the British Isles?
The Napoleonic wars transformed the face of European politics. Britain was the only major power which did not experience invasion during this period albeit abortive attempts in the late 1790s both in Ireland and Wales. Britain nevertheless was involved in the maelstrom of the transformation of the European system and the distortion of its balance of power influenced by Napoleonic forces.
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