Writings on Warcollects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time:The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War,The Großraum Order of International Law, andThe International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege".Written between 1937 and 1945, these works articulate Schmitt's concerns throughout this period of war and crisis, addressing the major failings of the League of Nations, and presenting Schmitt's own conceptual history of these years of disaster for international jurisprudence. For Schmitt, the jurisprudence of Versailles and Nuremberg both fail to provide for a stable international system, insofar as they attempt to impose universal standards of ‘humanity' on a heterogeneous world, and treat efforts to revise...The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.