NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, THE BARON DE MONTESQUIEU AND THE DESTABILIZING EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

• Published in: Journal of Liberty and International Affairs (Bitola) Vol. II; no. 3; pp. 9 - 29
• Main Author: Barclay, William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola 23-01-2017
• Subjects: EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment; Migration Studies; Political Philosophy; Security and defense; European Union; Migration; Denmark; Machiavelli; France; Montesquieu; Security
• ISSN: 1857-9760; 1857-9760

This essay demonstrates that, although modern liberals incessantly promote the EU as a living exemplar for the virtues of contemporary liberalism and basic, unrestrictive, migration policies, the experiences of innumerable contemporary EU states, such as France, contradict these spurious claims, since, instead of becoming enriched or improved, countless EU states have deteriorated and become fraught with social conflict, insecurity, and instability, as a result of their minimally restrictive, liberal, migration policies and consequent penetration with foreign, inherently contradictory ideology. Furthermore, this essay demonstrates that, despite the ignorant exclamations of modern liberals, the inviolable patriarch of liberalism, the Baron de Montesquieu, in addition to the pre-eminent, indispensable, paterfamilias of realism, Niccolò Machiavelli, explicitly confirm that, if any state fails to adequately restrict the migration of people and ideas across its borders, then that state will inevitably become penetrated by a foreign, inherently contradictory, ideology, and, consequently, eviscerated by an unrelenting insecurity.