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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Published in:	Ethics & Global Politics
Main Author:	Sergei Prozorov
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2010-11-01
Subjects:	Russia Georgia postcommunism anomie Giorgio Agamben Walter Benjamin Carl Schmitt
Online Access:	http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/5665/6326