%0 Journal Article
%T The figures of (a)symmetry: 'Pirates' and the world as a closed commercial state
%A Bojani£¿ Petar
%J Theoria, Beograd
%D 2010
%I Serbian Philosophical Society, Belgrade
%R 10.2298/theo1004005b
%X My intention is not to simply evoke Schmitt's critique of Kant's ideas concerning preemptive war and the unjust enemy - as we all know, these ideas were not Kant's nor is their critique original; after all, both Kant and Schmitt are simply brilliant compilers in international law - rather, I want to preliminarily demonstrate that every project concerning the constitution of an empire, league of nations or world government (or world governance) implies a paradoxical existence of an ambiguous 'exterior' (outside, without). It seems that the existence (or nonexistence) of something 'outside' of the world or 'outside' of borderless sovereignty, is a precondition for any theory of empire. .
%K piracy
%K pirate
%K outside
%K politics
%K empire
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0351-2274/2010/0351-22741004005B.pdf