"As Winston Churchill observed, The high belief in the perfection of man is appropriate in a man of the cloth but not in a prime minister.This line of thought suggests that the sort of reasonable, restrained balance of power system founded in Westphalia, promoted by philosophers such as Hugo Grotius, Samuel Pufendorf, and Immanuel Kant, and nurtured by such hard-headed diplomats as Talleyrand, Me" . . . . .