CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Koutkova, Karla |
|---|---|
| Title | Tracing the Exception: International Trusteeship as the Homo Sacer of International Politics |
| Summary | This paper traces the exception that the institution of international trusteeship presents in the international order and International Relations theory. It argues that the pervasiveness of the exception is indicative of sovereign power which has the capacity to decide on the suspension of law and that this power normalizes the state of exception in order to reproduce the sovereignty of the international trust. To this end, the paper connects the philosophical account of Giorgio Agamben on Homo Sacer and the State of Exception with an empirical case study of the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo and the ‘Standards for Kosovo’ project. |
| Supervisor | Astrov Alexander |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/koutkova_karla.pdf |
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