Word: machiavellianism
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Withholding loan guarantees made little sense. Israel has never defaulted on a loan and in any case, conditions had never been placed on loan guarantees given to a long list of other countries (including Iraq in the late 1980s). However, the Machiavellian Baker threatened to withhold the guarantees while demanding no major concessions from Arab countries regarding human rights, the Arab boycott of companies that do business with Israel or even recognition of the Jewish state's right to exist...
...tired trappings of the Bush years: the daft yet terrifyingly archconservative vice president, Millie the acclaimed canine auteur, the Kennebunkport/Houston hometown ambiguity, the Machiavellian figure of James baker ever hovering in the background, horseshoes and deep-sea fishing, Iraq...
...five books on U.S. foreign policy. When he talks, his eyes are penetrating and his humor is wry. Described variously by associates as "a stalwart Puritan," "immensely kind," "the opposite of a self-promoter" and "a tough competitor," he seems psychologically centered, surprisingly devoid of the egotism and Machiavellian qualities often found in presidential advisers...
...singer Sister Souljah, who had been on a panel the day before (the remarks, which appeared to advocate killing whites, had actually been made in an interview somewhat earlier). Jackson, who had not been informed of what Clinton intended to say, was furious; he decried it as a "Machiavellian" move intended to appeal to conservative whites. The strategic appraisal, though not the overheated rhetoric, was sound. Clinton was in fact emphasizing his independence from the special interests, militant blacks among them, that had seemed to exercise so much power in the party as to frighten away many middle-class white...
...third, less Machiavellian theory might hold the key. Kennedy may indeed have disparaged Roe three years ago, before Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall. But faced with the possibility that Roe might really be overturned -- and the social tumult that would ensue -- he instinctively pulled back from the brink...