Ethos without nomos: the Russian–Georgian War and the post-Soviet state of exception

This paper addresses the 2008 Russian–Georgian conflict in the context of the post-Soviet spatial order, approached in terms of Carl Schmitt's theory of nomos and Giorgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception. The ‘five-day war’ was the fir...

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Main Author: Sergei Prozorov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2010-11-01
Series:Ethics & Global Politics
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Online Access:http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/5665/6326