Internationalisation, globalisation, and quality audits: An empire of the mind?

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, 5 September 19431

The decline in sovereignty of nation-states… does not mean that sovereignty as such has declined. …sovereignty has tak en a ne w form, composed of a series of national and supranational organisms united under a single logic of rule. This new global form of sovereignty is what we call Empire.