The New World Order
by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt
- Author(s)
- Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt
- Publication
- Cambridge (MA.) ; London : Harvard University, 2001
- Scope
- 478 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 0674006712
Empire is a book on globalization and geopolitics by Post Marxist thinkers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The main thesis of the book is that in the globalization era a new form of capitalist sovereignty is emerging, which Hardt and Negri call ‘Empire’. Hardt and Negri elaborate a variety of ideas surrounding constitutions, global war, and class. Hence, the Empire is constituted by a monarchy (the United States and the G8, and international organizations such as NATO, the International Monetary Fund or the World Trade Organization), an oligarchy (the multinational corporations and other nation-states) and a democracy (the various non-government organizations and the United Nations). Part of the book's analysis deals with ‘imagin[ing] resistance, but "the point of Empire is that it, too, is "total" and that resistance to it can only take the form of negation - "the will to be against".[-]The Empire is total, but economic inequality persists, and as all identities are wiped out and replaced with a universal one, the identity of the poor persists.”
- Keywords
- (in)equity , politics , justice
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme
- Remarks
- Includes notes, index
