Introducing the International Theory of Carl Schmitt: International Law, International Relations, and the Present Global Predicament(s)

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-7

  Odysseos, Louiza ^a   Petito, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ESCP EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

Carl Schmitt; global war on terror; international law; international relations theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249168138     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156505003158     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. See the recent special issue on Schmitt's Nomos of the Earth in (2005) 104 (2) South Atlantic Quarterly, and also the articles on his international thought in (2004) 11 (4) Constellations” An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory.
2. C. Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum, trans. G. L. Ulmen (2003 [1950]).
3. W. E. Scheuerman, Carl Schmitt” The End of Law (1999), 1.
4. For examples of the application of Schmitt's insights to the analysis of current world politics see P. Stirk, Carl Schmitt, Crown Jurist of the Third Reich” On Preemptive War, Military Occupation, and World Empire (2005); C. Mouffe, ‘Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order’, (2005) 104 South Atlantic Quarterly 245; and W. Rasch, ‘Human Rights as Geopolitics” Carl Schmitt and the Legal Form of American Supremacy’, (2003) 54 Cultural Critique 120.
5. The section was convened by LouizaOdysseos and Fabio Petito under theheading ‘The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt’, details at http//www.sgir.org/archive/index.htm, s. 11.
6. See for instance B. Teschke, The Myth of 1648 (2003) and ‘Theorizing the Westphalian System of States” International Relations from Absolutism to Capitalism’, (2002) 8 EJIL 5; see also S. Krasner, Sovereignty” Organised Hypocrisy (1999), and ‘Westphalia and All That’, in J. Goldstein and R. Keohane (eds.), Ideas and Foreign Policy (1993), 253.
7. For an overview of the contribution of these thinkers to the discipline of international relations see M. Cox (ed.), E. H. Carr” A Critical Appraisal (2000); P. Wilson, The International Theory of Leonard Woolf” A Study in Twentieth Century Idealism (2002); S. Guzzini, Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy (1998); and T. Dunne, Inventing International Society” A History of the English School (1998).
8. C. Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (1996 [1932]), at 54. For the discussion of the concept of humanity see Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth, 103-4.
9. See the full section index at http//www.sgir.org/archive/index.htm, s. 11.
10. F. Lanchester, ‘Carl Schmitt” un giurista davanti a se stesso’, an interview with Carl Schmitt, (1983) III Quaderni costituzionali 5, at 34, our translation. Of course, here Schmitt is also referring, in an arguably excessive self-justificatory way, to his engagement with the Nazi regime.
11. C. Schmitt, Ex Captivitate Salus” Erfahrungen der Zeit 1945-47 (1950), 55.