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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 concept of the state as a community of liability (2015)
Book Chapter
Stirk, P. M. (2015). The concept of the state as a community of liability. In R. Schuett, & P. M. Stirk (Eds.), The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693627.001.0001

The concept of the state remains at one and the same time the most central and yet most elusive concepts in modern politics. This superb collection ranges across historical, Theoretical, and empirical landscapes, providing challenging and incisive in... Read More about The concept of the state as a community of liability.

'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'.

'No peace beyond the line'. (2011)
Book Chapter
Stirk, P. (2011). 'No peace beyond the line'. In S. Legg (Ed.), Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt (276-283). Routledge

Multiculturalism and the Concept of the State. (2010)
Book Chapter
Stirk, P. M. (2010). Multiculturalism and the Concept of the State. In M. Dimova-Cookson, & P. M. Stirk (Eds.), Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict (151-169). Routledge

Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict (2009)
Book
Dimova-Cookson, M., & Stirk, P. (Eds.). (2010). Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict. Routledge

Multiculturalism is higher on the daily political agenda in Europe and North America than it has ever been. Leading politicians and public commentators speak with an unparalleled bluntness about the perceived limitations of multiculturalism while rep... Read More about Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict.

‘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'.

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’.

‘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’.