Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of what is at stake in revival of Machiavellian republicanism while outlining the contours of the aforementioned discussion. Its starting point is the debate surrounding the concept of negative liberty.
For its part, republican critique of negative liberty is focused on the political circumstances of individual liberty, meaning that republicans view liberty in relation to the political community. And Machiavelli’s thinking is of central importance in this regard.
His interpretation of the Roman model emphasizes that liberty without domination comes about in a regime capable of balancing out the political rivalry between a people that tends to resist domination and elites that are incapable of relinquishing their thirst for domination. against its political elites