ABSTRACT
The fourth chapter analyzing three central concepts—morality, power and order. How the feasibility and desirability of these central concepts play out in the Kautilyan understanding of the idea of state and statecraft is discussed. The chapter engages on a discursive understanding of these concepts in international relations and political theory. Thus, a broader question that the chapter seeks to raise is conceptual value that texts like Arthashastra bring to the study of International Relations in general and International Political Theory in particular.
