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© 2020, Edizioni ETS. All rights reserved. This lecture outlines elements central to the project of rethinking the concerns of political theology. The lecture seeks to integrate that thinking into the development of a philosophy of life; life defined by an already given relation to the law. Maintaining the law, which is the stance against nihilism, whilst complicating the way law is understood, involves a shift in how sovereignty would itself then be conceived.

At the heart of contemporary international law lies a paradox: The attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001 have justified sixteen years of international war, yet the official international community, embodied principally in the United Nations, has failed to question or even scrutinize the U.S. Government's account of those attacks. Despite the emergence of an impressive and serious body of literature that impugns the official account and even suggests that 9/11 may have been a classic (if unprecedentedly monstrous) false-flag attack, international statesmen, following the lead of scholars, have been reluctant to wade into what appears to be a very real controversy. African nations are no strangers to the concept of the false flag tactic, and to its use historically in the pursuit of illegitimate geo-political aims and interests. This Article draws on recent African history in this regard, as well as on deeper twentieth century European and American history, to lay a foundation for entertaining the possibility of 9/11-as-false-flag. This Article then argues that the United Nations should seek to fulfill its core and incontrovertible "jury" function of determining the existence of inter-state aggression in order to exercise a long-overdue oversight of the official 9/11 narrative.

AbstractThe positive developments contrasted with widespread violations of humanitarian law in a number of major and minor armed conflicts and in the context of the so-called 'war on terrorism'.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. On the Edge of Affirmation: Derrida -- 2. Adieu to Negativity: Deleuze -- 3. The Density and Fragility of the World: Latour -- 4. Immeasurable Life: Negri -- 5. On the Edge of the Negative: Badiou -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Il y a peu de domaines qui semblent aussi peu relever de l'action du Parlement que la diplomatie. Le débat contradictoire et public entre députés apparaît en effet incompatible avec les arcanes des relations internationales. Si certaines assemblées françaises, notamment sous la Révolution, ont pu développer une activité diplomatique intense, la règle est plutôt celle d'un contrôle minimal, voire symbolique, de l'action gouvernementale en la matière. Pourtant, depuis quelques années, les chambres françaises ont l'ambition de développer une action diplomatique. Souvent complémentaire et coordonnée avec l'exécutif, celle-ci n'en développe pas moins des caractéristiques propres. La multitude des acteurs et leur manque de coordination en limitent toutefois la portée.