ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals how the Physiocrats tried to reconcile national glory with human prosperity and the perspective they finally arrived at concerning the European international order. It focuses on its editor's discourses by which the new direction of European nations was indicated as leading towards both national glory and human prosperity. The Physiocratic idea of 'natural order' was not necessarily cosmopolitanism, which in its pure form negated the concept of the sovereign state system, but rather was an attempt to indicate to the sovereigns of each nation the rational and rightful way for the pursuit of 'national interest' or 'national glory'. The chapter shows the difference or divergence among Physiocratic discourses on the relationship between war and the economy, which shows gradations from one historical context to another or from one author to another. Both 'power' and 'glory' are relative concepts, which require endless comparison between the self and others.
