Author of quotes: Michael Hardt

Empire presents its rule not as transitory moment in the movement of history, but as a way of ruling out any time frame and in this sense outside of history or end of history.

Imperialism is gone. No nation no longer be the world's leader in the sense that it was the peoples of Europe to modern times.

Proponents praise the United States as a world leader and sole superpower, but opponents denounce them as an imperialist oppressor. Both of these opinions are based on the assumption that the US just picked up the mantle of world domination, which dropped the peoples of Europe. If the nineteenth century was British, the twentieth century was the American, or generally speaking, if modernity was European, then postagreement is an American.

The transition to Empire, generated by the decline of the sovereignty of the modern type. In contrast to imperialism, Empire does not create a territorial center of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries or barriers. Is - decentered and deterritorializing, that is, devoid of center and bind to a specific site, a management apparatus, which gradually includes all the global space in their open and expanding boundaries. Mixed Empire manages hybrid identities, flexible hierarchies, and plural exchanges through modulating networks of command. Various national colours on the world map, times of traditional imperialism are blurred and merge into a rainbow of a global Empire.