REVIEW

The Re-turn to the Other: In Search of New Ontologies of
International Relations

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Anthony Burke, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War against
the Other, London: Routledge, 2007.

Louiza Odysseos, The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in
International Relations, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2007.


Anatoli Ignatov
Johns Hopkins University


Abstract

This essay places Carl Schmitt, Anthony Burke, and Louiza Odysseos
into critical conversations about the structural relation between global
politics and the production of otherness. Burke and Odysseos qualify
Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction by rethinking the complex relays
between security, subjectivity and ethics.

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