Political science -- Globalization

Indeks : p.259-266 ; The book argues, provides a stepping stone for thinking about the contemporary crisis in the order and structure of international society by offering an alternative history of international relations, of the genesis, achievements and demise of the Westphalian system. Writing at a time when he believed that this spatial, political and legal order (the nomos of the earth) had collapsed, Schmitt highlighted the advent of many of the core concerns of contemporary global politics, such as the weakening of the state, the emergence of US imperial hegemony, the prevalence of a global interventionist liberalism and the transformation of terrorism and warfare more generally. The contributors to the volume give further impetus to, and expand, the nascent debate on the significance of Schmitt's legal and political thought for International Relations. They use Schmitt's thought to reflect on the contemporary international political environment of the global war on terror, the crisis in international legality, US hegemony and the emergence of new forms of warfare.