1 Hardt and Negri and the Immobilization of States 24 -- Empire's immobilized subjects 26 -- Legitimacy problems 34 -- Immobilized states? 40 -- 2 Teubner and System Liberation 52 -- Systems emancipated 54 -- Systemic effects 59 -- 3 Habermas and Global Power Policy 71 -- Global mindset 73 -- Global pretension 80 -- Global failure 86 -- 4 Santos and the Difficulty of Sustainable Resistance 91 -- The decomposing state 93 -- Transnational legal fixity 96 -- Transnational momentum 103 -- 5 Wolin and Democracy's Debasement 113 -- Dispiriting democracy 116 -- No voice, costly exit? 119 -- A constitutional revolution 127 -- Unjustifiable solicitude 130 -- 6 Foucault, Ecuador and on Being 'Freer Than They Feel' 136 -- Thinking differently 140 -- Acting differently 146 -- The sparse field of available possibilities 156.