ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Schmitt's revival in Anglophone scholarship since the 1990s and principally on its acceleration during the first decade of the new century. Reading Schmitt in relation to biopolitics has become one of the dominant approaches to Agamben's work, and has done much to influence the sense of topicality Schmitt has been considered to have in the post-9/11 world. In addition, the translation of Schmitt texts deals with international law and geopolitical order in the same period for Anglophone audiences for the first time. These texts have stirred debate in a number of disciplines including, most recently, Geography, but their deepest impact thus far has perhaps been felt in International Relations. The chapter examines how the interaction of these factors contributed to the massive surge of interest in Schmitt as an international and indeed spatial thinker that has defined the second phase of his revival during the 2000s.
