Introduction -- The glorious sovereign: Thomas Hobbes on leadership and international relations -- John Locke's international thought -- Moral sentiment theory and the international thought of David Hume -- Adam Smith on war (and peace) -- Edmund Burke and international conflict -- The international political thought of John Stuart Mill -- The resilience of natural law in the writings of Sir Travers Twiss -- James Bryce and the two faces of nationalism -- Democracy and empire: J.A. Hobson, Leonard Hobhouse, and the crisis of liberalism -- The never-satisfied idealism of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson -- The realist as moralist: Sir Lewis Namier's international thought

1. International relations -- Philosophy -- History
2. International relations -- History
3. Political science -- Great Britain -- History
4. Great Britain -- Intellectual life