The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex

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Eric Wilson
Routledge, 23. mars 2016 - 384 sider
This volume presents a practical demonstration of the relevance of Carl Schmitt's thought to parapolitical studies, arguing that his constitutional theory is the one best suited to investing the ’deep state’ with intellectual and doctrinal coherence. Critiquing Schmitt’s work from a variety of intellectual perspectives, the chapters discuss current parapolitical reality within the domain of criminology, the parapolitical nature of both the dual state and the national security state corporate complex. Using the USA as a prime example of the world’s current dual or ’deep political state’, the criminogenic dimensions of the parapolitical systems of post 9/11 America are discussed. Using case studies, the dual state is examined as the causal factor of inexplicable parapolitical events within both the developed and developing world, including Sweden, Canada, Italy, Turkey, and Africa.
 

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1 The Concept of the Parapolitical
xv
2 StateCorporate Globalization and the Rise and Demise of the New Deal World Order
29
Toward a Political Economy of the Dual State
51
US Secret Warfare and Dwindling Oil Reserves in the Context of Peak Oil and 911
83
Replication Qualitative Research and Social Science Methodology
101
Africa Parapolitics and the National Security State Complex
117
Of Shadows or Equivalence in Regulating Global Crisis
153
The Case of Sweden
171
A Parallel Power
193
The Affaire Moro and Notes for a Reinterpretation of the Cold War and the Nature of Terrorism
213
11 Schmitt Ergenekon and the Neocons
273
12 The Spectacle and the Partisan
297
13 Targeting Journalists and Media in the New World Order
315
Dual Schmitt Deep Schmitt
337
Index
345
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Eric Wilson is senior lecturer of public international law at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is editor of Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty (Pluto Press, 2009). He is also the author of The Savage Republic: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism, and Dutch Hegemony in the Early Modern World-System (c.1600-1619) (Marinus Nijhoff Press, 2008). His primary research interests are the philosophy and history of public international law, critical jurisprudence, and critical criminology.

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