ABSTRACT
The term ‘globalisation’ appears to be rapidly falling out of fashion.1
George W. Bush has hardly ever used it, and on the political right it is increasingly felt to refer to a 1990s agenda, associated with the Third Way politics of Clinton and the first period of Blair’s government, one where the benefits of Free Trade would power capitalist expansion, reaping fruits that would supposedly be shared by everyone. On the left, globalisation is still a widely used concept, but the events of the early twenty-first century and changes in intellectual fashion have brought a different political vocabulary to the fore: that of empire and imperialism.
