In an influential essay titled, “The Hedgehog and the Fox”, the author Isaiah Berlin (1993) categorizes thinkers into two types: hedgehogs, who interpret the world through a single defining idea; and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. Examining the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s philosophy of history, epitomised by his book “War and Peace”, Berlin posited that Tolstoy was a hedgehog by nature—attempting to discover the law(s) by which history and morality worked—but at the same time not discounting the “peculiarities of personality and the contingencies of circumstance that defy such generalisations” (Gaddis 2018). The essay is ultimately a reflection of the tension that presides between systematic thinking and the messiness of human experience. This book is an attempt to prove that while tensions exist, often than not, the forces that shape history (viewed from the context of international order) is a result of the smooth interplay between the structural and the psychological.