Ethos without nomos: The Russian-Georgian war and the Post-Soviet state of exception

Ethics and Global Politics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 255-275

  Prozorov, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anomie; Carl Schmitt; Georgia; Giorgio Agamben; Postcommunism; Russia; Walter Benjamin

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649834361     PISSN: 16544951     EISSN: 16546369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/egp.v3i4.5665     Document Type: Article

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