Editors' Note

CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas that does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.

Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that therefore questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas.

For forty-five years, CR has been a journal committed to interdisciplinarity, and we continue to encourage work that goes beyond a simple performance of the strategies of various disciplines and interdisciplines, and that therefore interrogates them.

The urgency of the question of the political has never been more conspicuous, and Carl Schmitt's contributions to outlining this question have been seminal for the twentieth century and continue to be of major importance in the early twenty-first century. This special issue of CR organizes essays devoted to Schmitt and his principal interlocutors in order to assess the continuing importance of Schmitt's contribution to political theory. The editors thank Fred Bohm, Rodolphe Gasché, A. C. Goodson, Margot Kielhorn, Pat O'Donnell, Kathrin Thiele, Arthur Versluis, and Ewa Ziarek for their contributions to the success of this issue.

All page references to Schmitt's Theory of the Partisan are to the original German pagination, which appears in our text in square brackets. We are also pleased to provide an English translation of Theory of the Partisan on the CR website, available at http://www.msupress.msu.edu/journals/cr.

We currently are soliciting work for Special Issues or Special Sections on the following topics, among others:

• • Juan García Ponce Community, Politics

• • Eco in/of the Americas

• • Whose Homeland?