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The dual state : parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the national security complex / edited by Eric Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International and Comparative Criminal Justice
- International and comparative criminal justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985--Political and social views.
- Schmitt, Carl.
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985--Influence.
- State, The--History--20th century.
- State, The.
- State, The--History--21st century.
- Political science--History--20th century.
- Political science.
- Political science--History--21st century.
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume presents a practical demonstration of the relevance of Carl Schmitt's thought to parapolitical studies, arguing that his constitutional theory is the one best suited to investing the 'deep state' with intellectual and doctrinal coherence. At the same time, the book also doubles as a thoroughgoing critique of Schmitt's intellectual legacy from a parapolitical perspective; namely, that the pluralistic, heterogeneous, and fragmentary nature of the parapolitical national security complex operates to subvert the total and monist notion of the State and of sovereignty that are central to
- Contents:
- The concept of the parapolitical / Eric Wilson
- State-corporate globalization and the rise and demise of the new deal world order / Tom Reifer
- Capitalism, covert action and state-terrorism: toward a political economy of the dual state / Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
- "America is addicted to oil": U.S. secret warfare and dwindling oil reserves in the context of peak oil and 9/11 / Daniele Ganser
- Researching parapolitics: replication, qualitative research, and social science methodology / David N. Gibbs
- The unusual suspects: Africa, parapolitics, and the national security state complex / Rico Carisch
- State hierarchy and governance: of shadows or equivelance in regulating global crisis / Mark Findlay
- Dual state: the case of Sweden / Ola Tunander
- Canadian stalking horse : a parallel power / David MacGregor
- A study in gray: the affaire moro and notes for a reinterpretation of the Cold War and the nature of terrorism / Guido Giacomo Preparata
- Schmitt, ergenekon, and the neocons / Len Bracken
- The spectacle and the partisan / Jeff Kinkle
- Targeting journalists and media in the new world order / Stig A. Nohrstedt and Rune Ottosen.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-03523-2
- 1-315-61570-3
- 1-317-03522-4
- 1-283-62945-3
- 9786613941909
- 1-4094-3108-8
- 9781315615707
- OCLC:
- 812574574
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