Abstract

PEDRO, Luís Guilherme. Pax Germanica: The new liberal peace and the old European Angst. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2011, n.32, pp.129-152. ISSN 1645-9199.

This paper seeks to contribute to a reflection on the current European crisis through a critical theorization of liberalism, here characterized as a philosophical, political and ontological assumption of a liberal peace that rests increasingly on the geopolitical scenario of germanisation of Europe. Therefore, two main essays are revisited in the paper, one by Carl Schmitt and the other by Emanuel Levinas, their criticisms to the model of liberal peace describes many of the limitations of the industrial and technocratic model that underpins it, but above all the way in which this model paves the way for its own collapse.

Keywords : Liberal peace; security; anxiety; Europe.

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