The series of publications entitled “Rekonstruktive Weltpolitikforschung” publishes studies which address the pulsating developments in world politics and share an interest in adopting approaches to a subject that are exploratory and allow for theories to be devised as well as in the continued development of the research methods they employ. These studies all have a mutual formal theoretical basis which neutralises and integrates the typical clashes between talking and taking action, theory and practice, or understanding and explaining. Moreover, the authors of these studies all agree that events in global politics are determined by a universe of interpretations and convictions, intersubjective rules and norms and systemically induced effects whose substance can be reconstructed in detail.