The key to the global power of Empire lies in the fact that it is a new juridical power. That is, it is based on the constitution of order, norms, ethical truths, a common notion of what is right, and so on. This juridical formation is the source of the power of Empire. Thus, it can, in the name of what is ''right'' intervene anywhere in the world in order to deal with what it considers humanitarian problems, to guarantee accords, and to impose peace on those who may not want it or even see it as peace.
More specifically, it can engage in ''just wars'' in the name of this juridical formation; the latter legitimates the former. Such wars become a kind of sacred undertaking. The enemy is anyone or anything that the juridical formation sees as a threat to the ethical order, as it defines such an order, in the world.
Thus the right to engage in just wars is seen boundless in time; it is permanent, eternal.