Ethos without nomos

The Russian–Georgian War and the post-Soviet state of exception

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12866774
AutoresSergei Prozorov (0000-0003-0731-0557, University of Helsinki, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen3
Número4
Páginas255-275
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthics & Global Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1654-6369 • E-ISSN: 1654-4951
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3402/egp.v3i4.5665
OpenAlexW2003407189
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas6

This paper addresses the 2008 Russian–Georgian conflict in the context of the post-Soviet spatial order, approached in terms of Carl Schmitt's theory of nomos and Giorgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception. The ‘five-day war’ was the first instance of the violation by Russia of the integrity of the post-Soviet spatial order established in the Belovezha treaties of December 1991. While from the beginning of the postcommunist period Russia functioned as the restraining force in the post-Soviet realm, the 2008 war has made further recourse to this function impossible, plunging the post-Soviet space into the condition of anomie, or the state of exception. This paper interprets this disruptive policy in the post-Soviet space as the continuation of the domestic political process of the ‘management of anomie,’ which has characterized the entire postcommunist period. In the conclusion, we address the implications of the transformation of the international order into the ethos of anomie for rethinking the ethical dimension of global politics

Economic history · Ethos · Georgian · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Law · Philosophy · Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation