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Carl Schmitt and Francisco de Vitoria

The Paradox of Universalism in International Law

Reihe: Legal History Library, Band: 84/31 und Studies in the History of International Law, Band: 84/31

Cover Carl Schmitt and Francisco de Vitoria

ISBN:: 9789004757448

Verleger:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 12 Mar 2026

Fachgebiete
- Geschichte
- Internationale Beziehungen
  - Internationale Beziehungen

Front Matter

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Vitoria–Schmitt Nexus in the History and Theory of International Law

Part 1 The Reception of Vitoria and Schmitt in International Legal Thought

Chapter 2 Vitoria and Schmitt: Revisiting Political Theology and the Concept of Grossraum in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 3 Carl Schmitt on Imperialism and International Law

Chapter 4 The Problem of Limited War: Vitoria and Schmitt on Imperial Violence

Chapter 5 The Founding Father of Imagination: Habermas and Koskenniemi on Vitoria

Part 2 Conceptual Crossroads in International Law and Political Thought

Chapter 6 Planetary Enmity, Global Community and International Law: The Case of Vitoria and the Spanish Conquista

Chapter 7 Sovereignty and International Law from Vitoria to Schmitt

Chapter 8 Vitoria on International Law and the Schmittian Critique of the Liberal Order

Part 3 Discovery, Nomos, and Conceptions of Space

Chapter 9 The Spatial Imagination of International Law in China

Chapter 10 The Monroe Doctrine and the Influence of Vitoria and Carl Schmitt in Latin America

Chapter 11 Beyond Discovery: Decolonizing International Law through Long-Term Historical Analysis

Chapter 12 The Extravagant Pretension: Schmitt, Vitoria, the Discovery Doctrine, and the Trail of Tears

Part 4 Historical and Contemporary Pathways to Vitoria and Carl Schmitt

Chapter 13 Tyrannum licet deciper: ‘The mind has its ineluctable freedom…even in the claws of the Leviathan’

Chapter 14 ‘An Appropriate Alliance’: Situating the Laws of Friendship in Vitoria, Schmitt, and the History of International Legal Thought

Chapter 15 Displacing Vitoria? Carl Schmitt on Emer de Vattel in the History of Modern Ius Gentiums

Chapter 16 Schmitt vs. Vitoria on the Digital Battlefield: Free Flow of Information, Digital Sovereignty, and the Neutrality of Technology

Part 5 Vitoria and Schmitt in the Canon of International Law

Chapter 17 ‘Ancora tu?’ Questioning Carl Schmitt’s Place in the Canon of International Law

Chapter 18 Carl Schmitt and Francisco de Vitoria: Classics of International Law?

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