In the countries he visits, Kaplan claims, "civil society will likely be introduced only by force and Machiavellian tactics".
He'd realized, he wrote, that the "Machiavellian tactics" he'd learned from Bond, M., and George Smiley, "could be employed in the seemingly innocuous world of book selling".
The producer and co-producer of more than 100 shows on and Off Broadway, he never engaged in any outlandish David Merrick-like antics, or Machiavellian tactics.
He loved the court politics that developed at Condé Nast, and his Machiavellian tactics were both a way of doing business and a kind of aesthetic value, part of the company's frisson.
The form, which must be filled out in invisible ink, allows special deductions for Machiavellian tactics, such as killing a widow's pet budgie for defaulting on a $1.25 penalty; evicting taxpayers for inadvertent math errors; and seizing the collection plate in a Southern Baptist church and deducting entertainment tax.
And what fraction of upper-level executives reached that level on merit relative to those who gained their position through cronyism, toadying, backstabbing and other Machiavellian tactics?
The Machiavellian tactics employed by the democratic leadership defeated the party's best candidate and some 8th-grade math will prove it.
Read up upon the Huguenots and France, how the french monarchy used machiavellian tactics when dealing with the Huguenots.
However, when it comes to human rights abuses, this debate of hardliners versus moderates, is a classic political tactic and Machiavellian strategy used under several administrations by the Iranian government and by those who benefit from the establishment, economically and politically.
