To Schmitt, the division between dominium and imperium was more fundamental than the purely po­ liti­cal distinction of foreign and domestic. The most impor­tant border did not halve the world like an orange into East and West, or North and South, but preserved overlapping ­wholes in suspension, like an orange's pith and peel. “Over, ­under and beside the state-­political borders of what appeared to be a purely po­liti­cal international law between states,” he wrote, “spread a ­free, i.e. non-­state sphere of economy permeating every­thing: a global economy.”

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 50