This
paper discusses the
conditions on which an interloper can be accepted or
rejected by the
citizens of a newly captured country. The conditions are based on the philosophical works of Thomas Hobbes and Machiavelli. The paper shows that both Hobbes and Machiavelli believe that it is futile to reject someone off hand because such rejection would only result in waste of energy and nothing else. They feel that there are some important
attributes which make a ruler strong and worthy of our respect and thus he should be rejected only if he doesn't possess the right attributes.
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