These are some of my books and articles in progress. I update this page quite regularly so come back to it if you are interested in any of the research. Please do not cite without permission, which I am usually happy to give if you email me at l.odysseos@sussex.ac.uk
BOOKS
Global Civil War: Order, Violence and Enmity in the Post-Westphalian Era (provisional title)
ARTICLES
'Carl Schmitt, Franz Fanon and Michel Foucault: An Imagined Conversation about the "Global Civil War" as (Neo)Colonial Global Order', A paper in preparation for the Grotius, Schmitt and Colonialism project (convened by Dr. Eric Wilson, Monash University, Australia). Abstract.
'The Ends of the Global Liberal Order: Toward a "Global Civil War"?', Paper in preparation for 'After Liberalism', Millennium: Journal of International Studies Annual Conference, 17-18 October 2009, London School of Economics and Political Science. Abstract.
From State to (Self)Government: Human Rights, Liberal Ontogenesis and Violence in the Era of Neoliberal Governmentality, Paper prepared for Section 11: Global Ethics and the 'War on Terror', ECPR General Conference, 10-12 September, 2009, Potsdam, Germany.
Liberalism’s War, Liberalism’s Order: Rethinking the Global Liberal Order as a ‘Global Civil War’. Paper prepared for pre-International Studies Association workshop on 'Revising the Status of Liberal Internationalism', San Francisco, CA, 25 March 2008.
Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan. Paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, 26-29 March 2008.
Violence after the State? A Preliminary Examination of the Concept of 'Global Civil War'. Paper prepared for Section 25: Violence beyond the State, 6th Pan-European International Relations Conference, 12-15 September 2007, University of Torino, Italy.
Mapping a New Cosmo-politics? Invocations of Bhopal, Practices of the Global. Paper prepared for the 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Portland, 26 February - 1 March 2003.