In decentering the infamous friend—enemy distinction and developing instead the existentialist claim about “the real possibility of physical killing,” we can see Schmitt’s pathos more clearly, but we ...

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Beyond Trump’s taste for cruelty, this politics has various ideological sources, notably Carl Schmitt, the conservative theorist and Nazi sympathiser who inspires Trumpism’s intellectual wing. Schmitt ...

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Carl Schmitt, 'Grofraum versus universalism: the international legal struggle over the Monroe Doctrine', in Stephen Legg, ed., Spatiality, sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: geographies of the nomos ...

This phase reaffirms the adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" in international politics. Despite historical and ideological complexities, shared challenges are driving Egyptian-Iranian ...

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To shy away from candor on this issue yields the terrain to populists, ethnonationalists and, ultimately, the doctrines of Carl Schmitt and his ideological descendants in Russia, America and Europe.

Because he understood something most of us only realize after being burned: The friend who becomes your enemy was never your friend. Not truly. Not psychologically. Not beneath the surface.