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Gopal Balakrishnan

Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt (Verso, 2000) and the editor of Mapping the Nation (1994) and Debating Empire (2003). He is a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review and a 2005-2006 Other Globalizations Resident Fellow of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

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