The international political thought of Carl Schmitt : terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order / edited by Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Odysseos, Louiza.

Petito, Fabio

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge innovations in political theory ; 24.

Routledge innovations in political theory ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985.

Schmitt, Carl.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

xi, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : the international political thought of Carl Schmitt / Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito

Pt. 1. Carl Schmitt's heterodox international thought

The 'realist institutionalism' of Carl Schmitt / Alessandro Colombo

Geopolitics and grosspolitics : from Carl Schmitt to E.H. Carr and James Burnham / Mika Luoma-Aho

From humanized war to humanitarian intervention : Carl Schmitt's critique of the Just War tradition / Chris Brown

Pt. 2. The crisis of order (nomos) in the post-9/11 era

Global terrorism and the state of permanent exception : the significance of Carl Schmitt's thought today / Alain de Benoist

Partisan warfare, terrorism and the problem of a new nomos of the earth / Gary L. Ulmen

War, violence and the displacement of the political / Linda S. Bishai and Andreas Behnke

Crossing the line? : Carl Schmitt on the 'spaceless universalism' of cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror / Louiza Odysseos

Pt. 3. Searching for a new nomos of the earth

Carl Schmitt's warning on the dangers of a unipolar world / Chantal Mouffe

The re-emerging notion of empire and the influence of Carl Schmitt's thought / Danilo Zolo

Against world unity : Carl Schmitt and the western-centric and liberal global order / Fabio Petito

The evolution of European Union law and Carl Schmitt's theory of the nomos of Europe / J. Peter Burgess

Pt. 4. Critical rereadings of Carl Schmitt's international thought

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

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

Nomos : word and myth / Mitchell Dean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0415417546

9780415417549

0203964144

9780203964149

OCLC:

71286648