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From nomos to hegung : sovereignty and the laws of war in schmitt's international order
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Jacques, Johanna (2015) From nomos to hegung : sovereignty and the laws of war in schmitt's international order. The Modern Law Review, Volume 78 (Number 3). pp. 411-430. doi:10.1111/1468-2230.12122 ISSN 0026-7961.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12122
Abstract
Carl Schmitt's notion of nomos is commonly regarded as the international equivalent to the national sovereign's decision on the exception. But can concrete spatial order alone turn a constellation of forces into an international order? This article looks at Schmitt's work The Nomos of the Earth and proposes that it is the process of bracketing war called Hegung which takes the place of the sovereign in the international order Schmitt describes. Beginning from an analysis of nomos, the ordering function of the presocratic concept moira is explored. It is argued that the process of Hegung, like moira, does not just achieve the containment of war, but constitutes the condition of possibility for plural order.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sovereignty, International law | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Modern Law Review | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0026-7961 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 May 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 78 | ||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 411-430 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2230.12122 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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