Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK.

1.Introduction: International Political Theory as a European Theoretical Tradition.- 2.The European Image of the World as a Cosmos: Notes Towards an Archaeology.- 3.Reason of State in European International Thought.- 4.Aesthetic Approaches to International Political Theory.- 5.Democratic Peace as a Horizon of Expectation: Liberalism and Pluralism Revisited.- 6.Practice Approaches in International Political Theory.- 7.Justice and Injustice in International Political Theory.- 8.European International Political Theory as a New Critical Theory of World Politics: The Instructive Case of Jean Baudrillard.