Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United StatesHerfried Munkler is a walking one man think tank. Die Zeit Until recently, it was thought by many that empires were relics of the past. But suddenly, in the wake of 9 11, the global war on terror and the invasion of Iraq, the question of imperial power has returned to the centre of debate: we now seem to be faced with a new American empire that many people regard as threatening. Do the politicians in Washington dictate the rules that the rest of the