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Carl Schmitt, Crown Jurist of the Third Reich On Preemptive War, Military Occupation and World Empire (2005)
Book
Stirk, P. (2005). Carl Schmitt, Crown Jurist of the Third Reich On Preemptive War, Military Occupation and World Empire. Edwin Mellen Press

Carl Schmitt is one of the most contentious political theorists of the twentieth century. His complicity in Nazi Germany left him discredited yet he has continued to attract widespread attention as an insightful, if flawed, critic of the modern democ... Read More about Carl Schmitt, Crown Jurist of the Third Reich On Preemptive War, Military Occupation and World Empire.

'The Westphalian Model, Sovereignty and Law in Fin-de-siecle German International Theory' (2005)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (2005). 'The Westphalian Model, Sovereignty and Law in Fin-de-siecle German International Theory'. International Relations, 19(2), 153-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117805052811

This article considers the Westphalian model and its supposed origins in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century positivist thought. It shows how three German theorists, Georg Jellinek, Heinrich Triepel and Max Huber, subscribed to a weak version of t... Read More about 'The Westphalian Model, Sovereignty and Law in Fin-de-siecle German International Theory'.

‘John H. Herz: Realism and the Fragility of the International Order’ (2005)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. M. (2005). ‘John H. Herz: Realism and the Fragility of the International Order’. Review of International Studies, 31(2), 285-306. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210505006455

John H. Herz is a significant, but comparatively neglected, figure in the development of International Relations (IR) as a discipline. Although he contributed to the emergence of realism as the dominant approach to international relations in the Unit... Read More about ‘John H. Herz: Realism and the Fragility of the International Order’.