The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt Book

Notes on contributors     ix
Acknowledgements     xii
Introduction: the international political thought of Carl Schmitt   Louiza Odysseos   Fabio Petito     1
Carl Schmitt's heterodox international thought     19
The 'realist institutionalism' of Carl Schmitt   Alessandro Colombo     21
Geopolitics and grosspolitics: from Carl Schmitt to E. H. Carr and James Burnham   Mika Luoma-Aho     36
From humanized war to humanitarian intervention: Carl Schmitt's critique of the Just War tradition   Chris Brown     56
The crisis of order (nomos) in the post-9/11 era     71
Global terrorism and the state of permanent exception: the significance of Carl Schmitt's thought today   Alain de Benoist     73
Partisan warfare, terrorism and the problem of a new nomos of the earth   Gary L. Ulmen     97
War, violence and the displacement of the political   Linda S. Bishai   Andreas Behnke     107
Crossing the line? Carl Schmitt on the 'spaceless universalism' of cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror   Louiza Odysseos     124
Searching for a new nomos of the earth     145
Carl Schmitt's warning on the dangers of a unipolar world   Chantal Mouffe     147
There-emerging notion of Empire and the influence of Carl Schmitt's thought   Danilo Zolo     154
Against world unity: Carl Schmitt and the Western-centric and liberal global order   Fabio Petito     166
The evolution of European Union law and Carl Schmitt's theory of the nomos of Europe   J. Peter Burgess     185
Critical rereadings of Carl Schmitt's international thought     203
A terrifying world without an exterior: Carl Schmitt and the metaphysics of international (dis)order   Mika Ojakangas     205
The ethos of insecure life: reading Carl Schmitt's existential decisionism as a Foucauldian ethics   Sergei Prozorov     222
Nomos: word and myth   Mitchell Dean     242
Index     259