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The Common Enemy: Tyrants and Pirates

The Common Enemy: Tyrants and Pirates The South Atlantic Quarterly 104:2, Spring 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke University Press. Jon Beasley-Murray airspace heralds a period of new, more deadly and more disconcerting, forms of war. We find ourselves therefore with a typology of war, and a typology of discourses on and justifications for war, establishing a historical narrative characterized by a series of shifts: most importantly for Schmitt, from land war to sea war and then air war; and the construction, then possible derogation, of the jus publicum Europaeum as a mechanism to regulate war and so also interstate relations. The Nomos of the Earth presents as European civilization’s great achievement what Schmitt terms the ‘‘bracketing’’ of war, its management and rationalization, such that ‘‘an international legal order’’ arose, ‘‘based on the liquidation of civil war and on the bracketing of war (in that it transformed war into a duel between European states),’’ which therefore ‘‘legitimated a realm of relative reason. The equality of sovereigns made them equally legal partners in war and prevented military methods of annihilation’’ (142). This achievement is now threatened, however, by the spatial transformations that give us a new world order, a new nomos of the earth, which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

The Common Enemy: Tyrants and Pirates

Beasley-Murray, Jon
South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 104 (2) – Apr 1, 2005
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The South Atlantic Quarterly 104:2, Spring 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke University Press. Jon Beasley-Murray airspace heralds a period of new, more deadly and more disconcerting, forms of war. We find ourselves therefore with a typology of war, and a typology of discourses on and justifications for war, establishing a historical narrative characterized by a series of shifts: most importantly for Schmitt, from land war to sea war and then air war; and the construction, then possible derogation, of the jus publicum Europaeum as a mechanism to regulate war and so also interstate relations. The Nomos of the Earth presents as European civilization’s great achievement what Schmitt terms the ‘‘bracketing’’ of war, its management and rationalization, such that ‘‘an international legal order’’ arose, ‘‘based on the liquidation of civil war and on the bracketing of war (in that it transformed war into a duel between European states),’’ which therefore ‘‘legitimated a realm of relative reason. The equality of sovereigns made them equally legal partners in war and prevented military methods of annihilation’’ (142). This achievement is now threatened, however, by the spatial transformations that give us a new world order, a new nomos of the earth, which

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