For Daniel Bensaïd, globalisation has deeply perturbed political action

In an interview conducted by François Armanet, the philosopher Daniel Bensaïd explains how globalisation is transforming political action. "We are seeing a brutal modification of the conditions for political activity, both temporal and spatial, that had prevailed since the big revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries. The notions of sovereignty, of the people, the nation, territory, have been been upheaved without actually being replaced. The global war, without limits in time or space, decreed by Bush following 9/11, puts current international law into question. ... We continue to act in several areas at once (economic, juridical, ecological, and cultural). For three centuries, national territory had become politically dominant. The social power balance and corresponding rights were established around this. Today we are obliged to act on a moving scale of tightly-knit areas."

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