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The Concept of Military Occupation in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (2015)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (2015). The Concept of Military Occupation in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Comparative Legal History, 3(1), 60-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2015.1041726

This article accounts for the existence of a clear concept of military occupation, albeit inconsistently used, in the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It sets out the factors favouring such clarity and those militating against it.... Read More about The Concept of Military Occupation in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

'The Westphalian model and sovereign equality' (2012)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. M. (2012). 'The Westphalian model and sovereign equality'. Review of International Studies, 38(3), 641-660. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210511000192

Although the Westphalian model takes many forms the association of Westphalian and sovereign equality is a prominent one. This article argues firstly that sovereign equality was not present as a normative principle at Westphalia. It argues further th... Read More about 'The Westphalian model and sovereign equality'.

‘Et l’ère de l’État touché sa fin: Carl Schmitt et la conceptualisation du changement d’époque historique en relations internationales’ (2009)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (2009). ‘Et l’ère de l’État touché sa fin: Carl Schmitt et la conceptualisation du changement d’époque historique en relations internationales’

Dans Le nomos de la terre, Carl Schmitt se penche sur la fin de l’époque du droit public européen et de l’État que ce droit a soutenu, qui ont reçu peu d’attention. L’exposé qu’il en fait illustre plus largement certaines considérations contenues dan... Read More about ‘Et l’ère de l’État touché sa fin: Carl Schmitt et la conceptualisation du changement d’époque historique en relations internationales’.

'John H. Herz and the International Law of the Third Reich' (2008)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (2008). 'John H. Herz and the International Law of the Third Reich'. International Relations, 22(4), 427-440. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117808097308

John H. Herz was unusual amongst the founding fathers of international relations in having paid detailed attention to the ideology and international law of the Third Reich in a study published in 1938. This article sets his investigation in the conte... Read More about 'John H. Herz and the International Law of the Third Reich'.

'The Concept of the State in German Political Thought' (2006)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. M. (2006). 'The Concept of the State in German Political Thought'. Debatte (London. Online), 14(3), 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/09651560601042845

It appeared that the troubled history of German political thought had finally come to an end in the consensus of the Bonn Republic about the de-thronement of the concept of the state. Debate in the Berlin Republic, however, suggests that the concept... Read More about 'The Concept of the State in German Political Thought'.

'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’.

‘Carl Schmitt’s Enemy and the Rhetoric of Anti-Interventionism’ (2003)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. M. (2003). ‘Carl Schmitt’s Enemy and the Rhetoric of Anti-Interventionism’. The European Legacy, 8(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/1084877032000066288

This article explores Carl Schmitt's concept of the enemy against the backcloth of the international agenda from the 1920s into the Second World War. More specifically it argues for his abiding antipathy to the Anglo-Saxon powers. It identifies his c... Read More about ‘Carl Schmitt’s Enemy and the Rhetoric of Anti-Interventionism’.

‘Hugo Preuss, German Political Thought and the Weimar Constitution’ (2002)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (2002). ‘Hugo Preuss, German Political Thought and the Weimar Constitution’. History of Political Thought, 23(3), 497-516

The reputation of Hugo Preuss has been tainted by the failure of the Weimar Republic, whose constitution he drafted. Preuss has consequently been comparatively neglected in the history of German political thought and some have seen him as trapped in... Read More about ‘Hugo Preuss, German Political Thought and the Weimar Constitution’.

‘Carl Schmitt’s Völkerrechtliche Grossraumordnung’ (1999)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (1999). ‘Carl Schmitt’s Völkerrechtliche Grossraumordnung’. History of Political Thought, 20(2), 357-374

Carl Schmitt's work on the international order during the Second World War has been comparatively neglected. There is, however, a strong connection between Schmitt's understanding of political concepts and the nature of the political and his writings... Read More about ‘Carl Schmitt’s Völkerrechtliche Grossraumordnung’.