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EMPIRE

EMPIRE Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri are two philosophers that have written together the book "Empire" in 2000, in this same book they stated these sentences:   “The United States does not, and indeed no nation-state can today, form the center of an imperialist project. Imperialism is over. No nation will be world leader in the way modern European nations were.”  I though this would be an interesting subject related to international relations, globalization and imperialism.  Hence this allegation leads us to question the world as we conceive it nowadays. More specifically the question aroused by the authors is :  "Although the great colonial empires have collapsed during the past half century, their legacy shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. (...) Meanwhile there are fierce arguments about what have replaced these empires. Do the United States (...) and the transnational companies constitute a new imperial sys