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Harald Mueller's proposal to include the theory of communicative action in the theoretical modeling of international relations has been severely criticized. According to the critics, there are no criteria for identifying the shift from strategic to communicative action. The intention of this paper is to support the project initiated by Mueller by dealing with the "transition problem" within the theoretical framework of Habermas's social theory. Mueller has to be reproached for not having adequately integrated the ideality of Habermas's concept of communication into an analytical framework that also aims to include the facticity of noncooperative solutions to conflicts. It is only when the structural perspective of Habermas's social theory is taken into consideration that the "transition problem" can be solved, as this procedure allows the normative & substantial thesis to be established that in conflict situations the protagonists of international relations ideally coordinate their actions by applying the mode of communicative action, which corresponds to cooperation. In this case, the facticity of forms of noncooperative solutions to conflicts, ie, the strategic coordination of actions, can be attributed to nonfulfilled conditions for communication. Adapted from the source document.