the kantian or universalist tradition at the other extreme take the essential nature of international politics to lie not in conflict among states as in the hobbesian view but in the transnational social bonds that link the individual human beings who are the subjects or citizens of states . The dominant theme of international relations,in the Kantian view,is only apparently the relationship among states and is really the relationship among all men in the community of mankind which exists potentially, even if it does not exist actually,and which when it comes into being will sweep the system of states