ABSTRACT
Decades after the collapse of the Soviet system, an irresistible globalization of economic exchanges occurred accompanied by an apparatus of global markets and circuits of production that has resulted in a new global system, or as United States (US) President George H. Bush proclaimed in the 1990s, ‘a new world order.’ The new world order is in essence a governing logic and structure of authority, power and rule – a new form of sovereignty. Regulating these vast global exchanges that largely govern international relations is a new form of political reality, a new kind of sovereignty different from the older forms of imperialism that characterized the world of colonial satellites and great power states. As Hardt and Negri (2001) succinctly put it, ‘sovereignty has taken a new form, composed of a series of national and supranational organisms united under a simple logic of rule. This new global form of sovereignty is what we call Empire’ (p. xii).
