Author profile: Rebecca Kaisler

Is the Contemporary Global Political Order Describable in Terms of ‘Empire’?

Rebecca Kaisler • Aug 1 2011 • Essays

Hardt and Negri’s ‘Empire’ is heralded as the most successful work of political theory to come from the left for a generation.
For Hardt and Negri, the modern forces of globalization, transnational capital, and the world market have led to the deterioration of the sovereignty the nation-state, which has been replaced by a supranational force, ‘Empire’.

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