Books in the New Left Review Debates series

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist upon a mainenance of their privileges, an increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war.

This text draws together all the debate surrounding Hardt and Negri's "Empire", which has been hailed as a latter day "Communist Manifesto" and as a turning point for the left, with the authors responding to their questions and criticisms.