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Stelio Mangiameli, Marta Lucena Pérez (trad.)
En la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, aunque el mundo parecía estar dividido en dos bloques, la idea misma de imperio parecía haber desaparecido de la escena política y del panorama de los estudiosos del derecho internacional. En realidad, estudiosos sagaces como Carl Schmitt, al tiempo que vaticinaban el fin del "inquietante dualismo" creado tras el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, imaginaban un mundo con formaciones políticas que se correspondían con "grandes espacios"; una realidad que se hizo patente tras los acontecimientos que siguieron a la caída del Muro de Berlín. En este nuevo escenario, que hunde sus raíces en un derecho internacional fundado en el reconocimiento del poder de facto, la idea de imperio como forma política ha surgido a partir de connotaciones históricas precisas y ha trazado un entramado institucional que condiciona las relaciones internacionales actuales.
In the second half of the last century, even if the world appeared to be divided into two blocks, the very idea of Empire seemed to come out of the political scenario and the panorama of international law scholars. The return to a community of states placed in conditions of equality according to the scheme inherited from Westphalia was taken for granted. In reality, careful scholars such as Carl Schmitt, while predicting the end of the “disturbing dualism” created after the end of the Second World War, imagined a world with political formations which corresponded to "large spaces"; a reality that became evident following the events following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In this new scenario, which has its roots in international law based on the recognition of de facto power, the idea of Empire as a polity has re-emerged, based on very specific historical connotations, and has drawn an institutional set-up that conditions current international relations.
