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

terrorism 1, 76–9, 80–5, 88–9, 116, 151–3;
alerts 138; citizen accused 93; definition
of 90; fight against 90–1, 93; global 3,
11, 13, 73, 81–3, 129, 139, 161–2;
international 102–5; legitimacy of 75–6;
methods against 89
terrorist 74–6, 97–8, 101, 105, 151, 162; as
criminals 79, 80, 104; Islamic 73, 82–3;
legislation 90; political 103; religious
102–3
terrorist networks 77–8; transnational 82
theological 10–11, 207–8, 218
torture 89, 90, 93, 105, 255
total war 77, 80, 103, 109–10, 114;
discriminatory 254; legitimate 59, 64
transgression 222, 226–8, 233, 235–6;
experience 231; of the limit 227
Treaties 36, 195; Maastricht 157; Paris
186, 198–9; Tordesillas 5; Versailles 12,
38, 43
truth 231, 234–5, 238; centralized 114;
claims to 110; of divine law 232;
economy of 113; locus of 236;
pluralized 109, 111; regimes of 228
undecidability 232, 238; radical 233
unipolar world 147, 150–2, 253
United Nations 24, 30, 33, 50, 98, 104,
119, 134, 160, 162, 169, 189; Charter
114, 116, 129, 139; police, role of 255;
Security Council 117, 134
United States 1, 36, 40–1, 46–50, 61, 76,
78–80, 82, 90–1, 98, 103–5, 117, 134–6,
139, 141, 156–60, 162, 251–3; boundaries
39; Constitution 87; foreign policy 40, 42,
126, 161, 171; government 51, 148–9;
grand strategy 181; hegemony 3, 13–14,
147, 150, 154; influence 168; interest 53,
171; military police 255; Patriot Act 88,
93; role of 11–12, 49, 254; Supreme
Court 93; unilateralism 134
United States power 62, 161, 163; imperial
149; military 62; structure 159;
unchallenged 151
United States Presidents: Bush, George W.
78, 85, 88, 92, 107, 147–8, 162;
Lincoln, Abraham 87; McKinley,
William, assassination of 79; Monroe
52; Roosevelt, Franklin D. 87;
Roosevelt, Theodore 40, 79, 254;
Washington, George 98; Wilson,
Woodrow 40, 61, 149, 175
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
152, 192
Index 265
universalist 13, 41, 66, 119, 126, 205–6,
251; appeals to democracy 255;
humanitarians 153; ideals of humanism
236; liberal norms 131; political 40, 42,
48; spaceless 125, 128–9, 245
values and norms 109, 113; abstractions
192; of the European Union 192; of the
law 219
violence 32, 43–4, 49, 77, 133, 103, 107,
110–11, 116–17, 136–7, 216, 218,
237; legitimized 58; limits of 108,
119–21; minimum 255; nihilist 177;
organized 26; patterns of 6; political
13, 101; role of 59, 66–7; self-regulation
of 128; among states 114; unrestrained
127
voice 113–14; arrogation of 119; global
152
void of undecidability 234, 236; originary
235; proximity to 231, 237
war 25, 44, 54, 60, 73, 107, 111, 114,
119–21, 136, 148–9, 175, 216, 228, 235;
of annihilation 6–7, 12, 30, 134;
asymmetrical 82; bracketed 9, 22, 28,
63, 66, 101, 125–7, 140, 253; crimes
257; criminalized 38, 251;
discriminating 162; as a duel 66;
economic 177; and enmity 97, 126;
exaltation of 231; foreign 100; game
219; global 161; Gulf 76, 254;
humanitarian 57, 67, 138; humanized
10, 58, 62, 64; intensification 179;
interstate 26, 32; just 10, 32, 104;
justification of 110, 135; laws of 13, 98;
liberal 117; limited 128; Napoleonic 68;
non-discriminatory 133, 137; nuclear
50; partisan 92; as police action 160;
prevention 47; revolutionary 75; right to
wage 29; rules of 103; traditional 80;
unlimited 30, 128; without end 85, 88;
see also civil war; total war
War on Terror 3, 11, 13, 37, 53, 78–82, 85,
89, 92, 104, 121, 126–9, 132, 134–40,
147, 171, 255
warfare 110; modern 62; partisan 1, 99
Weimar Republic 2, 38–9, 87
Western bloc 51; civilization 170–1;
defensive concept 40; Europe 52;
Grossraum 53; Hemisphere 39, 41, 141,
180; isolationist 12; material values 82;
political theory 154; rationalism 31;
tradition 47; secularised 83