Contents -- Foreword -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Traditions of Thought and Classical Theories of International Relations -- 2 Hobbes, the State of Nature and the Laws of Nature -- 3 Grotius, Law, and Moral Scepticism: Theory and Practice in the Thought of Hedley Bull -- 4 Kant: Theorist beyond Limits -- 5 Vitoria and the Universalist Conception of International Relations -- 6 Desperately Clinging to Grotian and Kantian Sheep: Rousseau's Attempted Escape from the State of War -- 7 Adam Smith and the Liberal Tradition in International Relations -- 8 Edmund Burke and the Commonwealth of Europe: The Cultural Bases of International Order -- 9 Hegel, the State and International Relations -- 10 Friedrich Gentz, Rationalism and the Balance of Power -- 11 Vattel: Pluralism and Its Limits -- 12 Conclusion -- Index.