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

In this piece we introduce and contextualize the contributions to the special focus on the international theory of Carl Schmitt, and argue that Carl Schmitt's much neglected international thought can provide scholars of both international relations and international law with a new common multidisciplinary research platform pivotal in thinking about the present international predicaments of crisis in international order and legitimacy, of contested liberal hegemony, and of the issue of unipolarity and the emergence of new forms of warfare, such as terrorism and the ‘global war on terror’.

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Drawing Fear of Difference: Race, Gender, and National Identity in Ms. Marvel Comics

Millennium Journal of International Studies ◽

10.1177/0305829819889133 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 165-197

Author(s):

Dean Cooper-Cunningham

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

National Identity ◽

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Identidad Nacional ◽

Official Discourse ◽

Marvel Comics ◽

Feminist Poststructuralist ◽

Global War

Feminist scholars have provided important analyses of the gendered and racialised discourses used to justify the Global War on Terror. They show how post-9/11 policies were made possible through particular binary constructions of race, gender, and national identity in official discourse. Turning to popular culture, this article uses a Queer feminist poststructuralist approach to look at the ways that Ms. Marvel comics destabilise and contest those racialised and gendered discourses. Specifically, it explores how Ms. Marvel provides a reading of race, gender, and national identity in post-9/11 USA that challenges gendered-racialised stereotypes. Providing a Queer reading of Ms. Marvel that undermines the coherence of Self/Other binaries, the article concludes that to write, draw, and circulate comics and the politics they depict is a way of intervening in international relations that imbues comics with the power to engage in dialogue with and (re)shape systems of racialised-gendered domination and counter discriminatory legislation. Dibujando miedo a la diferencia: raza, género e identidad nacional en Ms. Marvel Comics

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Conclusion

Worse Than a Monolith ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691142609.003.0008 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas J. Christensen

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Burden Sharing ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Coercive Diplomacy ◽

Conflict Escalation ◽

Coordination Problems ◽

Alliance Politics ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Global War

This chapter reviews the historical and theoretical lessons highlighted by the book. It shows how disorganization and discord in alliance politics has made the maintenance of peace through coercive diplomacy in Asia very difficult. It considers two separate sets of dynamics among enemy alliances that carry theoretically important lessons for the study of international relations. The first set of dynamics relate to alliance coordination, problems of burden-sharing within an alliance, and unclear signaling in an alliance's coercive diplomacy. The second set of dynamics involves potentially differential levels of devotion to specific revisionist conflicts. The chapter concludes with a discussion of other cases of alliance disunity and conflict escalation to which the theoretical approaches offered here might apply, including pan-Arabism and the Six Day War of 1967, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the global war on terror.

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The (Arrested) Development of UK Special Forces and the Global War on Terror

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210509990398 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 971-982 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ALASTAIR FINLAN

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Use Of Force ◽

Special Forces ◽

The West ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

State Action ◽

Global War ◽

Peace And War ◽

Military Units

AbstractThe use of force in international relations by the West is increasingly witnessing a greater reliance on Special Forces. This trend has profound implications for state action because Special Forces represent a very different kind of soldier and they possess the inherent ability to transgress traditional boundaries in peace and war. The development and participation of UK Special Forces in the Global War on Terror provides a microcosm of the positive and negative dimensions of using secret military units as the force of choice against insurgents and terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq and indeed on the streets of London.

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The evolution of international law in light of the ‘global War on Terror’

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210510001014 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 1069-1094 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

ERIC A. HEINZE

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

War On Terror ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Legal Personality ◽

Terrorist Groups ◽

The Law ◽

Global War ◽

International Legal Personality ◽

Self Defence

AbstractThis article explores how various aspects of the ‘global War on Terror’ may be affecting the future development of international law on the use of force. I examine these effects within three areas of international law – the law of anticipatory self-defence, the law of self-defence against non-state actors, and the applicability of international humanitarian law to non-state armed groups. Only in the latter two areas do I find evidence that international law is evolving to accommodate the new realities of global terror. While such developments in the law reflect the supposed need by states to use military means to combat terrorism, they also seem to confer at least a limited international legal personality upon terrorist groups such asAl-Qaeda. This not only indicates a shift in the basis for legal personality, but also potentially undermines the legitimacy of international law and frustrates states' efforts at combating terrorism.

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Space, scale and Just War: meeting the challenge of humanitarian intervention and trans-national terrorism

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210508008188 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 581-600 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

JOHN WILLIAMS

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Just War ◽

Humanitarian Intervention ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Space Scale ◽

Global War ◽

The Cold War ◽

The Way

AbstractThis article contributes to current debates about Just War by analysing an insufficiently recognised problem with the way Just War theorists have responded to the two principal challenges surrounding the ethics of violence in international relations since the end of the Cold War – humanitarian intervention and the ‘global war on terror’. The problem focuses on strongly embedded assumptions that exist in contemporary Just War debates about the nature and meaning of territory. The article argues that Just War needs to engage more systematically with challenges to dominant ‘Westphalian’ framings of territory, space and scale in order to contribute more effectively to important ethical debates about the use of violence in international relations.

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Civil War Time: From Grotius to the Global War on Terror

Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting ◽

10.1017/amp.2017.152 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 111 ◽

pp. 3-14

Author(s):

David Armitage

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

War On Terror ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

American University ◽

Isaac Newton ◽

Legal Studies ◽

College Of Law ◽

American Society ◽

Heads Of State ◽

Global War

I am deeply grateful to the American Society of International Law—especially to its president, Lucinda Low—and to the International Legal Studies Program at American University Washington College of Law—in particular, to the Dean of the College, Camille Nelson, and to its program director, David Hunter—for their generous invitation to deliver the nineteenth Annual Grotius Lecture. Grateful, but more than a little intimidated. Nobel laureates and heads of state, eminent judges and leading diplomats have given this distinguished lecture, but never, I think, a humble historian. As Isaac Newton might have said were he in my shoes, “[i]f I can see far, it is because I stand on the shoulders of these giants.”

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