Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored.

Foreword; A.Honneth Introduction: A Recognition-Theoretic Research Programme for the Social Sciences; N.H.Smith PART I: RECOGNITION AS A CATEGORY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Is Recognition a Basis for Social or Political Thought?; T.Pinkard Hegelian Recognition, Critical Theory and the Social Sciences; J-P.Deranty PART II: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS OF PATTERNS OF MISRECOGNITION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES Misrecognition, Marriage, and Derecognition; C.F.Zurn Work as a Sphere of Norms, Paradoxes and Ideologies of Recognition; N.H.Smith Recognition Theory as the Grounds of a General Theory of Crime as Social Harm?; M.Yar Recognition and Religious Diversity: the Case of Legal Exemptions; J.Seglow PART III: CHALLENGING THE RECOGNITION ORDER IN THE STATE AND BEYOND The Politics of Ethno-National Conflict Transformation: A Recognition-Theoretical Reading of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland; S.O'Neill Recognition as Statecraft? Contexts of Recognition and Transformations of State Membership Regimes; D.Owen Recognition and Immigration; R.Cox The Global Politics of Recognition; V.Heins