Carl Schmitt and the Question of World Unity

In The Concept of the Political, Carl Schmitt excludes the possibility of a World State from the perspective of the structure of the political. As a fundamental category in which all political phenomena can be resolved, at its core stands friend-enemy antagonism. The concept implies a decision regarding the enemy, and therefore, about the state of exception and sovereignty. A world State, according to Schmitt, not only excludes the enemy, which in its human form is included in the planetary ordering of humanity, but it eradicates the political as political. Nevertheless, in The Nomos of the Earth, the changing global spaces and political orders determine the end of the classical concept of the enemy and, as a result, the modern State. Keeping current global events in mind, the paper aims to evaluate Carl Schmitt’s thought on the possibility of a politically unified world in geopolitical dynamics that appear to announce a new nomos of the Earth as a multipolarity of superpowers. Faced with the political future of humanity, which manifests itself as a pluriverse, an inquiry into the concept of the political might help us grasp the orderings and localizations of contemporary nomos.