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• Title: Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: The Peace Process in the Public Sphere.
• Author : International Journal of Peace Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 366 KB

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Introduction "The ever present possibility of combat," according to Carl Schmitt's famous doctrine, defines the real antithetical categories underling the notion of the "political:" that of a friend or an enemy. During times of peace and stability, people might come to use the concept of "the political" in a metaphorical way and, as a result, its real meaning might be lost in everyday language. But, Schmitt (1996, 38) contended, "[t]he real friend-enemy grouping is existentially so strong," that it "pushes aside and subordinates" other competing categorization "at precisely the moment at which it becomes political." This "moment" is a threat of war. Leaving aside the question of whether Schmitt indeed identified the true meaning of "the political" (or whether there is such a true meaning), let us focus here only on one aspect of Schmitt's observation: war affects the way arguments are exchanged in the public sphere. When the drums of war are banging one category of identity, that of a friend or an enemy, "pushes aside and subordinates" other categories of identity and other ways to discuss political matters.

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