Drawing on a tripartite taxonomy first suggested by the so-called English School of International Relations of a Hobbesian tradition of power politics, a Grotian tradition of concern with the rules that govern relations between states;

Foreword - Notes on the Contributors - Traditions of Thought and Classical Theories of International Relations; I.Clark - Hobbes, the State of Nature and the Laws of Nature; C.Navari - Grotius; B.Kingsbury - Kant: Theorist beyond Limits; H.Williams & K.Booth - Vitoria and the Universalist Conception of International Relations; M.C.Ortega - Desperately Clinging to Grotian and Kantian Sheep: Rousseau's Attempted Escape from the State of War; D.P.Fidler - Adam Smith and the Liberal Tradition in International Relations; A.W.Walter - Edmund Burke and the Commonwealth of Europe: The Cultural Bases of International Order; J.M.Welsh - Hegel, the State and International Relations; A.Linklater - Friedrich Gentz, Rationalism and the Balance of Power; R.Little - Vattel: Pluralism and its Limits; A.Hurrel - Conclusion; I.Clark & I.B.Neumann - Index