Rules, Norms, and Decisions: On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Affairs

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Rules, norms, and actions: laying the conceptual foundations 2. Anarchy and the state of nature: the issue of regimes in international relations 3. The emergence of types and forms 4. The force of prescriptions: Hume, Hobbes, Durkheim and Freud on compliance with norms 5. The discourse on grievances: Pufendorf and the 'laws of nature' as constitutive principles for the discursive settlement of disputes 6. The notion of 'right' 7. The question of 'law' 8. The path of legal arguments Conclusion Notes Index.