Kautilya’s Kutayuddha 300 BCE–300 CE: Part 2

Kautilya as a Realist Philosopher and a Theorist of Power Realist theorists of international relations assume that the state is a unitary actor with coherent objectives and a centralized capacity to act on its decisions.42 The Realist School argues that the behaviour of states is shaped by the power at their disposal in the fiercely […]

Kautilya’s Kutayuddha 300 BCE–300 CE: Part 1

The debate regarding the dating and authorship of the Arthasastra continues. Thomas Trautmann argues that the Kautilya Arthasastra is actually a composite product of three or four different individuals. In Trautmann’s view, Kautilya is at best a compiler and editor of the teachings of previous teachers belonging to the arthasastra tradition.1 In a somewhat similar […]