Carl Schmitt’s politics in the age of drone strikes
Examining the Schmittian texture of Obama’s enemy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18963032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Fairhead (0000-0002-7725-7459, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-54 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2017.1410991 |
| OpenAlex | W2774640422 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
When George Bush declared to his global audience that they were either ‘with us or against us’, he appeared to directly invoke the Schmittian antithesis of friend vs. enemy. Against the historical backdrop of Bush’s war on terror, and the scholarly attention his foreign policy received in relation to Carl Schmitt’s concept of the political, this paper examines whether the Obama administration’s targeted killing regime has marked a departure from Schmitt’s paradigms of war and enmity. Focusing specifically upon the rapid increase in use of drone strikes during Barack Obama’s presidency, this paper argues that the production of the enemy’s abstractness and drive for its annihilation together push at the limits of the Schmittian political logic. However, rather than denoting the point at which political relations are unexplainable through a Schmittian lens, this paper proposes that this produced enemy and its treatment in drone ‘warfare’ obfuscates the lines between a complex of Schmittian paradigms
Adversary · Antithesis · Computer security · Drone · Epistemology · Foreign policy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |