No one would deny that there exists within some state a high degree of domestic or municipal order. It is, however, often argue that international order does not exist, except as an aspiration, and that the history of international relations consists simply of disorder or strife. To many people the idea of international order suggest not anything that has occurred in the past, but simply a possible or desirable future state of international relations, about which we might speculate or which we might work to bring about. To those who take this view a study of international order suggest simply a design for a failure world, in the tradition of sully, cruce,st.Pierre and other peace theorists