within the community of all mankind, in the Universalist view, the interests of all men are one and the same; in not a purely distributive or zero-sum game, as the Hobbesians maintain, but a purely cooperative or non-zero-sum game. conflicts of in-terest exist among the ruling cliques of states, but this is only at the superficial or transient level of the existing system of states; properly understood, the interests of all peoples are the same. the particular international activity which, in the kantian view, most typifies international activity as a whole is the horizontal conflict of ideology that cuts across the boundaries of states and divides human society in two camps-the trustees of the imminent community of mankind and those who stand in its way, those who are of the true faith and the heretics, the liberators and the oppressed.