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Carl Schmitt war ein Denker konkreter Situationen. Angesichts der Literatur zu seiner Bedeutung als Kulturkritiker, Geschichtsphilosoph oder homme de lettres wird oft vergessen, daß er in erster Linie der Betrachter der höchst handgreiflichen Politik seiner Zeit und ihrer ideologischen Verschleierungen war. Doch erst in Bonn, wo er 1922–1928 lehrte, wurde Schmitt zum Theoretiker des Politischen, der rasch auf die Ereignisse reagierte. Hier erlebte er die Besetzung der Rheinlande und mußte deren Abtrennung vom Reich befürchten, hier erfuhr er deren Weiterung: die Besetzung des Ruhrgebiets durch französische und belgische Truppen im Januar 1923. Diese Maßnahmen erfolgten im Namen von Recht und Legalität, sollten die »Heiligkeit der Verträge« sichern und basierten auf einem Völkerrecht, das aus deutscher Sicht als Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln erschien. Die Juridifizierung der Politik und der gewollte Mangel an Sichtbarkeit des Feindes, zur Verschärfung der Feindschaft führend und im diskriminierenden Kriegsbegriff mündend, wurden von nun an wichtige Themen Schmitts. Angesichts heutiger weltpolitischer Ereignisse, deren Politikziel, Herstellung von freiheitlichen und demokratischen Verhältnissen, vielen nur als Vorwand für eigentlich gemeinte Ziele wie ökonomische Expansion, geostrategische Kontrolle und Strafkrieg erscheint, sind Schmitts damalige Überlegungen von fortdauernder Aktualität.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- anno 1900-1999 --- Treaties. --- International law. --- League of Nations --- History. --- Law --- Philosophy.

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"At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under 'mandate' from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe--from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment--but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means--client states, economic concessions--of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was"--

Imperialism --- Colonies --- Mandates --- World politics --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Internationalism --- International relations --- Impérialisme --- Mandats internationaux --- Politique mondiale --- Anti-impérialisme --- Internationalisme --- Relations internationales --- History --- Histoire --- League of Nations --- History. --- Impérialisme --- Anti-impérialisme --- World history --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Advice and Rights. --- Anti-imperialist movements. --- Colonies. --- FN --- HISTORY --- Imperialism. --- Imperialismus. --- International relations. --- Internationalism. --- Mandates. --- Mandatsgebiet. --- World politics. --- Historia. --- General --- Modern --- 20th Century. --- World. --- League of Nations. --- Völkerbund. --- 1900-1999. --- Imperialism - History - 20th century --- Colonies - History - 20th century --- Mandates - History - 20th century --- World politics - 1919-1932 --- World politics - 1933-1945 --- Anti-imperialist movements - History - 20th century --- Internationalism - History - 20th century --- International relations - History - 20th century