Conference paper
DILEMMAS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM
Zvonko Posavec
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author outlines some basic conceptual aspects of the legal evolution of international relations after 11 September 2001. First, he briefly sums up the classical international law. Then he goes on to analyze the two dominant approaches to the future development of international law – the idealistic and the realistic – by juxtaposing Kant and Hegel. Regarding this debate one should not forget Carl Schmitt, the German legal and political theoretician, since he challenges the universalist presumptions of Kant’s project. Schmitt calls into question the function of the rationalization of governance which should be taken over by the constitution, both within and outside the nation-state. The author concludes that the US and other big powers will soon have to return to the path they paved and energetically followed between 1918 and 1945, the path of gradual progress in the historical evolution of international law.
Keywords
Kant; law; politics; Carl Schmitt; international law
Hrčak ID:
21828
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Publication date:
25.7.2005.
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