alarm state political scientists and constitutional scholars know well the great theorist of the "state of exception ', the German jurist Carl Schmitt
. Said, 'Don Carlos' (as he was known in Spain and Galicia, which had great prestige, he cultivated friendships, including that of Manuel Fraga Iribarne
- and found his son, a professor at the University of Santiago) that when note who the real ruler is in times of emergency. For Schmitt the two key policy questions were: "Who decides?" And "Who is the enemy? "The English Constitution of 1978 meets its thirty-second anniversary today calling for the first time in its history, the state of emergency, exceptional measure enacted by the executive to end the strike covert air traffic controllers, who got close English airspace for nearly two days.
controllers crisis must be understood in a broader context, the privatization forced by the fragile financial health of southern Europe and the Eurozone. The Old Continent lives extraordinary moments. Seems to move in the dilemma of the disintegration of the single currency and the strengthening of a proto-federation political soulless or identity (for Schmitt democracy was essentially a system of identity between rulers and ruled). Responding to the needs Schmittian is harder than ever. "Governments decide? Do national or the EU executive without a face? Is there a tangible enemy that serves to define, in contrast, our identity? Or are we fighting an alien species that, like the film, creates more anxiety because it is not visible?
it clear who decided on the exception in the case of drivers, but it is less clear who has induced privatization measures, in part, have fueled the wildcat strike of this group. The Hobbesian Leviathan, the state decision maker and executor, claimed popular legitimacy based on a social contract. The modern Leviathan has no face and its connection to the city is very weak. These are times to reread Schmitt and seriously consider the arguments of a new book,
The political history of European integration: The hypocrisy of democracy-through-market (written by Hagen Schulz / Forberg and Bo Strath, published by Routledge ), which defends the idea that the project of a European political federation finally fell out of favor in the 70's, and since then has never really sought political control of the economy, quite the contrary. A thesis in good times may not matter, but must be weighed carefully in this surge of emergency. Reading
curious Fraga Iribarne, Manuel. 1962. "
Carl Schmitt: the man and the work ."
Policy Studies Journal 122, pp. 5-17.
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