¿Soberanía selectiva y nueva Doctrina Monroe? Geopolítica y extranjería en la era de los Grandes Espacios schmittianos : Selective sovereignty and the new Monroe Doctrine? Geopolitics and foreignness in the age of the Schmittian Great Spaces

Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva

doi:10.12795/araucaria.2025.i59.26

Authors

Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva Universidad de Villanueva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2025.i59.26

Keywords:

Carl Schmitt, Großraum, United States, Great Spaces, Geopolitics, Sovereignty

Abstract

This article addresses Carl Schmitt's 1939 book, Völkerrechtliche Großraumordnung, as a theoretical lens that allows us to understand the current crisis of multilateral discourse, the restoration of geopolitical zones of influence, and the normative crisis of international law evoked by the United States government in its foreign policy and its measures regarding immigration and asylum. This analysis strictly adheres to legal-philosophical arguments to understand the extent to which there are coincidences between the German discourse of non-intervention by foreign powers in 1939 and the current American discourse regarding foreigners and other powers. The conclusion is that, indeed, elements similar to Carl Schmitt's Great Spaces proposal are currently emerging. However, despite resonating with Schmitt's 1939 approach, American policy clashes with its own universalist liberal tradition and with the international liberal artifice that it strove to construct and that it now seeks to dismantle. This voided identity legacy prevents the US from crystallizing a homogeneous cultural and civilizational bloc in the sense of Schmitt's Großraum.

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