May 10, 2004
We now shift to the third part of Chapter One. That chapter is titled World order, whilst its third part is called Universal values. Hardt and Negri start it by asking a good question:
"We might well ask at this point, however, should we still use the juridical term "right" in this context? How can we call right (and specifically imperial right) a series of techniques that, founded on a state of permanent exception and the power of the police, reduces right and law to a question of pure effectiveness?"
It is a good question. It tackles the debate between realists (national interest) and Kantian idealists (world democracy) and it enables us to hold the twin tendencies of the US--acting in terms of its global interests and universal values.
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