The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal ...

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include La guerra ineguale: Pace e violenza nel tramonto della società internazionale
(2006) and La lunga alleanza: La Nato tra consolidamento, supremazia
e crisi (2001).
Mitchell Dean is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Division of Society,
Culture, Media and Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the
author of several books, including Governmentality: Power and Rule in
Modern Societies (1999). He is currently working and writing on authoritarian
liberalism, sovereignty, states of exception, world order and notions of
war and peace. These themes are found in his new book, Governing Societies:
Political Perspectives on National and International Rule (2007).
Alain de Benoist is the editor of the two French academic journals Krisis and
Nouvelle Ecole, and the author of more than fifty books about political philosophy,
sociology and the history of ideas. He has translated articles by Carl
Schmitt into French and has published the first full bibliography of Schmitt’s
works, Carl Schmitt: Bibliographie seiner Schriften und Korrespondenzen
(2003).
Mika Luoma-aho is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University
of Lapland, Finland. He studied Schmitt’s geopolitical work at the
Finnish Graduate School of Political Science and IR in 1999–2002 and
received his PhD in politics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in
2002. He is the author of articles in, among others, Journal of European
Public Policy, Geopolitics and European Legacy.
Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of
Democracy, University of Westminster, United Kingdom. She is the author
of The Return of the Political (1993), and The Democratic Paradox (2000)
and editor of The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (1999).
Louiza Odysseos is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of
Sussex. She is the author of The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in International
Relations (2007), as well as articles in European Journal of Political
Theory, Review of International Studies and Millennium. She co-edited Gendering
the International (2002) and a Special Focus on the ‘International
Theory of Carl Schmitt’ of the Leiden Journal of International Law (2006).
Her recent project explores the international writings of Carl Schmitt in order
to analyse liberal cosmopolitan theorisations of a ‘post-Westphalian era’.
Mika Ojakangas is Academy Research Fellow in Political Science at the
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
He is the author of several articles on Carl Schmitt and political philosophy,
including most recently a monograph, A Philosophy of Concrete Life: Carl
Schmitt and the Political Thought of Late Modernity (2006).
Fabio Petito teaches International Relations at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), London, and the University ‘L’Orientale’ in Naples,