Carl Schmitt in Russia and China: A Revival for Großraum Analytics in International Law?
Journal: T.M.C. Asser Press eBooks
Year: 2026

In this chapter, we seek to answer the question of if—and if so: how—the Russian and Chinese receptions of the Großraum concept developed by Carl Schmitt in 1939/41 intersect and reinforce each other at critical junctures. If they turn out to do so, this will help us understand what the accumulated threat of Großraum thinking is today in its competition with liberal modes of thinking non-intervention in international law. We conclude that the pattern of Russian and Chinese practices that we have