Carl Schmitt's friend/enemy principle is exposed to in-depth philosophical analysis and historical examination with the aim of showing that the political follows hostility, violence and terror as form follows matter. The book argues that the partisan is an umbrella concept that includes the national and global terrorist.

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GABRIELLA SLOMP is Senior Lecturer in International Political Thought at the University of St Andrews, UK. After attaining her PhD at the LSE, she worked at the Universities of Swansea and Strathclyde. She is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory, editor of Thomas Hobbes and has published numerous articles in the history of political thought.

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Introduction Continuity and Novelty, Clarification and Recommendations On Domestic Hostility The Partisan, or the Man of Exception Hostility: Historical and Conceptual Forms The Righteous Warrior Friendship: Domestic and International Final Thoughts