The nomos of the Earth in the international law of the jus publicum Europaeum / Carl Schmitt; translated & annotated by G. L. Ulmen.

New York : Telos Pr, 2003.

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International law.

International law -- Europe -- History.

Political science.

Philosophy.

International relations.

International relations -- United States.

Europe -- History.

Part I. Five introductory corollaries: --1. Law as a unity of order and orientation --2. Pre-global international law --3. International law in the Christian Middle Ages --4. On the meaning of the word 'nomos' --5. Land-apropriation as a constitutive process of international law --Part II. The land-appropriation of a new world: --1. The first global lines --2. Justification of the land-appropriation of a new world : Francisco de Vitoria --3. Legal title to the land-appropriation of a new world : discovery and occupation --Part III. The jus publicum Europaeum --1. The state as the agency of a new, interstate, Eurocentric, spatial order of the Earth --2. The transformation of Medieval wars (duels or feuds) into non-discriminatory state wars : from Ayala to Vattel --3. Freedom of the sea --4. Territorial changes --5. Reference to possibilities and elements of international law unrelated to the state --Part IV. The question of a new nomos of the earth: --1. The last pan-European land-appropriation : the Congo Conference of 1885 --2. Dissolution of the jus publicum Europaeum (1890-1918) --3. The League of Nations and the problem of the spatial order of the Earth --4. Transformation of the meaning of war --5. The Western hemisphere --6. Transformation of the meaning of recognition in international law --7. War with modern means of destruction --Part V. Appendix : three concluding corollaries: --1. Appropriation/distribution/production : an attempt to determine from 'nomos' the basic questions of every social and economic order --2. Nomos - Nahme - name --3. The new nomos of the Earth.

Includes index.

Translated from the German by Gary L. Ulmen. Original title "Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum" (Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 1950, 2nd ed, 1974).

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372 p.