On Rules, Politics and Knowledge

Foreword; R.Falk Introduction; The Editors PART I: THINKING WITH KRATOCHWIL: SPEECH, REASON, AND KNOWLEDGE De Gustibus (valoribus) est Disputandum: Contra Realpolitik without Politics, Theory without Reflexivity, Science without Judgment; S.Guzzini From Logic to Logics: The Relationship of Particular Cases to General Patterns in Social Life; J.W.Davis Game Theory and Reciprocity: Toward a Social Perspective; D.W.Larson 'Trust me, I promise!': Kratochwil's Contributions towards the Explanation of the Structure of Normative Social Relations; R.B.Hall What Do We Mean When We Say that Substance Matters?; J.Friedrichs On Norms, Communication and the Problem of Practice; O.Kessler Social Science: Social or Scientific Project; R.N.Lebow PART II: ARGUING WITH KRATOCHWIL: RULES, NORMS, AND ETHICS Rules in Practice; N.Onuf The Aesthetics of Power: Constructivist Historicism versus Thucydides; M.Loriaux Don't Reify Agency: International Law and Moral Action in an NGO World; C.Lynch Cynical Rascals or Conscientious Objectors? Interpreting Noncompliance with International Norms; M.Bukovansky Rules, Norms, Revisions?; N.J.Rengger PART III: BUILDING ON KRATOCHWIL: PERSUASION, ORDER, CHANGE The Quest for Persuasion: Habermasian Thought and the New German Idealism in International Relations; J.Steffek Normative Baggage in International Encounters: Contestation All the Way; A.Wiener Rules and Norms in a Post-Western World; C.Brown Understanding Change in International Politics, Again and Again and Again; R.Koslowski The 'Inter' According to Fritz: Rethinking IR's Proverbial Toolbox; M.Albert & Y.Lapid Friedrich Kratochwil's Published Work, 1971-2009