This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide.

Part I. Rule of Law at the International, National, and Transnational Level: 1. Measuring the quality of rule of law: virtues, perils, results Wolfgang Merkel; 2. International law and the rule of law at the national level Helmut Philipp Aust and Georg Nolte; 3. Constraining international authority through the rule of law: legitimatory potential and political dynamics Tim Gemkow and Michael Zürn; 4. New modes of governance and the rule of law: the case of transnational rule-making Gunnar Folke Schuppert; Part II. Actors: Strategies and Responses: 5. Rule of law promotion policies in comparison Frank Schimmelfennig; 6. Rule of law promotion through international organizations and NGOs Monika Heupel; 7. Combating transnational crime: the role of learning and norm diffusion in the current rule of law wave Paulette Lloyd, Beth Simmons and Brandon Stewart; 8. Rule of law challenges in middle income countries and donor approaches to addressing them Linn Hammergren; 9. Civil-military cooperation in building the rule of law Tilmann Röder; 10. Developing a theoretical framework for evaluating rule of law promotion in developing countries John Gillespie; 11. Rule of law promotion after conflict: experimenting in the Kosovo laboratory Richard Zajac Sannerholm; 12. The ICC's intervention in Uganda: which rule of law does it promote? Sarah Nouwen; 13. From rule of law promotion to rule of law dynamics Randall Peerenboom, Michael Zürn and André Nollkaemper.