BOOKS

The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in International Relations (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 272pp. ISBN 0-8166-4855-7 (pbk.), 0-8166-4854-9 (hbk.). Available here.

In this pioneering book, Louiza Odysseos argues that debates about ethnic conflict, human rights, and the viability of multicultural communities all revolve around the question of coexistence. Yet, issues of coexistence have not been adequately addressed by international relations. Instead of being regarded as a question, “coexistence” is a term whose meaning is considered self-evident.

The Subject of Coexistence traces the institutional neglect of coexistence to the ontological commitments of international relations as a modern social science predicated on conceptions of modern subjectivity. This reliance leads to the assumption that coexistence means little more than the social and political copresence of individuals, a premise that occludes the roles of otherness in the constitution of the self. Countering this reliance necessitates the examination of how existence itself is coexistential from the start.

Odysseos opens up the possibility of a coexistential ontology, drawing on Martin Heidegger and his interlocutors, in which selfhood can be rethought beyond subjectivism, reinstating coexistence as a question for global politics—away from the restrictive discursive parameters of the modern subject.

"The Subject of Coexistence makes a salutary contribution to the field, showing by example the rigorous demands that are implied in bringing together continental philosophy and international relations theory." — Professor Howard Caygill, Goldsmiths, University of London.

The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order  (London: Routledge, 2007), 288pp, co-edited with Fabio Petito. ISBN 978-0-415-47477-1 (pbk.), 0-415-41754-6 (hbk.). Available here.

The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt presents the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the ‘Westphalian’ international order. There is an emerging recognition in political theory circles that core issues, such as order, social justice, rights, need to be studied in their global context. Schmitt’s international political thought provides a stepping stone in these related paths, offering an alternative history of international relations, of the genesis, achievements and demise of the ‘Westphalian system.’ Writing at a time when he believed that the spatial, political and legal order—the nomos of the earth—had collapsed, he highlighted the advent of the modern state as the vehicle of secularization, tracing how this interstate order was able to limit and ‘rationalize and humanize’ war. Providing a large number of case studies including: global terrorism, humanitarian intervention and US hegemony, this book will give further impetus to, and expand, the nascent debate on the significance of Schmitt’s legal and political thought for international politics.

Chapters by Chantal Mouffe, Mitchell Dean, Gary Ulmen, Danilo Zolo, Alessandro Colombo, Chris Brown, J. Peter Burgess, Alain de Benoist, Mika Luoma-aho, Mika Ojakangas, Sergei Prozorov, Andreas Behnke, Linda Bishai, Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito.

Gendering the International (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 248pp, co-edited with Hakan Seckinelgin. ISBN: 0-33398-713-6. Available here.         

The essays in Gendering the International explore the different ways of analyzing gender in international studies beyond the state-centric perspective of International Relations (IR). They contend IR is a set of gendered practices, by critically examining ways in which gender discourses are deployed in the analyses of 'the international'. Furthermore, they reflect on the interactions between gender and globalizing forces in a post-colonial environment. Topics include inter alia the ecology in the world economy, prostitution and subjectivity, gender in war and revolution, constructions of masculinity, rethinking the state, development and gender, etc.

Chapters by, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Andrew Barry, Val Plumwood, Vivienne Jabri, Fred Halliday, Neferti Tadiar, Ruth Pearson, William Callahan, and Jeremy Seabrook.

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES

‘The International Theory of Carl Schmitt,’ Special Focus comprised of five articles of Leiden Journal of International Law 19, No. 1 (January 2006), co-edited with Fabio Petito. Articles from Robert L. Howse, Joerg Friedrichs, Thalin Zarmanian and Christoph Burchard.

‘Gendering “the international”,’ Anniversary Special Issue of Millennium: Journal of International Studies 27, No. 4 (1998), co-edited with Hakan Seckinelgin. Articles from, inter alia, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Andrew Barry, Val Plumwood, Vivienne Jabri, Fred Halliday, Neferti Tadiar, Ruth Pearson, William Callahan, and Jeremy Seabrook.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

‘Humanité, hostilité et ouverture de l'ordre politique dans la pensée internationale de Carl Schmitt,’  [Humanity, Enmity, and the Openness of Political Order in the International Thought of Carl Schmitt], Études Internationales 40, No. 1 (March 2009): 73-93 (Special Issue on Carl Schmitt and International Relations).

‘Constituting Community: Heidegger, Mimesis and Critical Belonging,’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 12, No. 1 (March 2009): 37-61; reprinted  in Jens Bartelson and Gideon Baker (eds), The Future of Political Community (London: Routledge, 2009).

‘Vagaries of Interpretation: A Rejoinder to David Chandler’s Reductionist Reading of Carl Schmitt,’  with Fabio Petito, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37, No.2 (December 2008): 463–475. See here David Chandler's original article and reply to our rejoinder.

‘Introducing the International Theory of Carl Schmitt: International Law, International Relations and the Present Global Predicament(s),’ with Fabio Petito, Leiden Journal of International Law 19, No. 1 (January 2006): 1-7, (Special Issue on the International Theory of Carl Schmitt).

‘On the Way to Global Ethics? Cosmopolitanism, Ethical Selfhood and Otherness,’ European Journal of Political Theory 2, No. 2 (April 2003): 183-207; reprinted in Stephen Chan and Cerwyn Moore (eds), Approaches to International Relations, vols. 1-4, (London and New Delhi: Sage, 2009).

‘Radical Phenomenology, Ontology and International Political Theory,’ Alternatives 27, No.3 (July/September 2002): 373-405.

‘Dangerous Ontologies: The Ethos of Survival and Ethical Theorising in International Relations,’ Review of International Studies 28, No. 2 (April 2002): 403-418.

‘Laughing Matters: Peace, Democracy and the Challenge of the Comic Narrative,’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies 30, No. 3 (2001): 709-732 (Special Issue on Images and Narratives of World Politics).

‘Haven as a Barrier to Heaven? The Cyprus Offshore Financial Centre and European Union Accession,’ The Cyprus Review 9, No. 2 (Fall 1997): 9-40. 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

‘Deconstructing the Modern Subject: Method and Possibility in Martin Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Facticity,’ in Cerwyn Moore and Christopher Farrands (eds), International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive Dialogues (London: Routledge, 2009, forthcoming).

‘Carl Schmitt,’ with Fabio Petito, in Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams (eds), Critical Theorists and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2009).

‘Martin Heidegger,’ in Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams (eds), Critical Theorists and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2009).

‘Introduction: The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt,’ with Fabio Petito, in Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito (eds.), The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order (London: Routledge, 2007).

‘Crossing the Line? Carl Schmitt on the Spaceless Universalism of Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror,’ in Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito (eds.), The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order (London: Routledge, 2007).

‘Gendering the “International,” Globalizing Gender,’ with Hakan Seckinelgin, in Louiza Odysseos and Hakan Seckinelgin (eds.) Gendering the International (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002). ISBN: 0-33398-713-6

OCCASIONAL/WORKING PAPERS

Activism and Webs of Meaning: Rethinking the Relationship Between the ‘Local’ and the ‘Global’ in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Civil Society Research Report No. 23 (2004): 1-33. ISBN: 1-86840-564-8

OTHER

Review of Gerard Delanty, Citizenship in a Global Age (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001, 165 pp.) in Millennium 30, No. 2 (2001): 408-410.

Review of Julia Kristeva, Crisis of the European Subject (New York: Other Press, 2000, 183pp., US$19.95 pbk.) in Millennium 29, No. 3 (2000): 908-910.

Review of Emmanuel Levinas, Alterity and Transcendence (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, 195 pp., $29.50 hbk.) in Millennium 29, No. 1 (2000): 242-244.

Review of Edith Wyschogrod, An Ethics of Remembering (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 304pp., $47.00 hbk.) in Millennium 27, No. 3 (1998): 746-748.

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