International politics of exception: competing visions of international political order between law and politics.

From: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Both political leaders and academics often claim exceptional times. But what does it mean to speak of exceptional politics in international relations? In one sense exceptionality is a descriptive category referring to a radical change in the systemic conditions of international politics. In this article a different notion of exception is examined. It refers to a particular method of conceptualizing the nature of international political order. The exception defines political order by means of constitutional-legal reasoning in which different understandings of the nature and status ...

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