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The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order book cover

1st Edition

The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order

Edited By Louiza Odysseos, Fabio Petito Copyright 2007
280 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the ‘Westphalian’ international order. There is an emerging recognition in political theory circles that core issues, such as order, social justice, rights, need to be studied in their global context.... Read more

‘The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: an introduction’ Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito

PART I: CARL SCHMITT’S HETERODOX INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT

1. ‘The realist institutionalism of Carl Schmitt’ Alessandro Colombo

2. ‘Geopolitics and Grosspolitics: from Carl Schmitt to E. H. Carr and James Burnham’ Mika Luoma-aho

3. ‘From humanized war to humanitarian intervention: Carl Schmitt’s critique of the just war tradition’ Chris Brown

PART II: THE CRISES OF ORDER (NOMOS) IN THE POST-9/11 ERA

4. ‘Global terrorism and the state of permanent exception: the significance of Carl Schmitt’s thought today’ Alain de Benoist

5. ‘Partisan warfare, terrorism, and the problem of a new Nomos of the earth’ Gary L. Ulmen

6. ‘War, violence, and the displacement of the political’ Linda S. Bishai and Andreas Behnke

7. ‘Crossing the Line? Carl Schmitt on the ‘Spaceless Universalism’ of Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror’ Louiza Odysseos

PART III: SEARCHING FOR A NEW NOMOS OF THE EARTH

8. ‘Carl Schmitt’s warning on the dangers of a unipolar world’ Chantal Mouffe

9. ‘The re-emerging notion of Empire and the influence of Carl Schmitt’s thought’ Danilo Zolo

10. ‘Against world unity: Carl Schmitt and the Western-centric and liberal global order’ Fabio Petito

11. ‘The evolution of European Union law and Carl Schmitt’s theory of the nomos of Europe’ J. Peter Burgess

PART IV: CRITICAL RE-READINGS OF CARL SCHMITT’S INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT

12. ‘A terrifying world without an exterior: Carl Schmitt and the metaphysics of international (dis)order’ Mika Ojakangas

13. ‘The ethos of insecure life: reading Carl Schmitt’s existential decisionism as a Foucauldian ethics’ Sergei V. Prozorov

14. ‘Nomos: word and myth’ Mitchell Dean

Biography

Louiza Odysseos, Fabio Petito

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