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Thus, the essays here collected cover the advent of what the Bush dynasty termed the new world order based on past formulas of empire building and future plans for expanding spheres of influence. Under the Obama administration, the foreign policy agenda has remained virtually unchallenged, although the discourse has been toned down somewhat. However, “an unprecedented network of military bases” is emerging worldwide. The colonizing gesture is evident in the “myriad land-grabs and hundreds of billions of dollars spent to quarter troops around the world [that] persist far beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, and too far from the headlines” (Lutz). The novelty is that the monster’s tentacles are no longer visible; Leviathan has outlived the Hobbesian notion that tied its existence to the now obsolete nation-state.