"Writings on War "collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important
and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first
time: "The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War," "The Groraum
Order of International Law," and "The International Crime of the
War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena
sine lege"."
Written between 1937 and 1945, these works articulate Schmitt's
concerns throughout this period of war and crisis, addressing the
major failings of the League of Nations, and presenting Schmitt's
own conceptual history of these years of disaster for international
jurisprudence. For Schmitt, the jurisprudence of Versailles and
Nuremberg both fail to provide for a stable international system,
insofar as they attempt to impose universal standards of 'humanity'
on a heterogeneous world, and treat efforts to revise the status
quo as 'criminal' acts of war. In place of these flawed systems,
Schmitt argues for a new planetary order in which neither
collective security organizations nor 19th century empires, but
Schmittian 'Reichs' will be the leading subject of international
law.
Writings on War will be essential reading for those seeking to
understand the work of Carl Schmitt, the history of international
law and the international system, and interwar European history.
Not only do these writings offer an erudite point of entry into the
dynamic and charged world of interwar European jurisprudence; they
also speak with prescience to a 21st century world struggling with
similar issues of global governance and international law.
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