Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Against the Conventional Wisdom -- 1 A Troublesome Abstraction -- 2 Hobbes�s Symbolic Politics -- 3 Despite Philosophical Reason -- II Talk about the World -- 4 All International Theorists Now -- 5 The Human Domain -- 6 Seeing All Relations Whole -- III State, Nation, Agent -- 7 Struggling with States -- 8 Tracing Nations -- 9 Contriving Agents -- IV Debates in Theory -- 10 Meta-theory and Modernity -- 11 Cosmopolitan Kant -- 12 The Kantian Search for Unity -- Conclusion