In this article we propose to establish the internal logic of the theoretical paradigms that underlie the concepts of hegemony and empire into four principal authors to international theory, verifying what consequences they have on the concept of change; and the characteristics and resolution of the current crisis in the international system. The first part of the work will address the contemporary world order developing in particular how the concepts of hegemony and empire through four of its most prominent authors shape: first, analyze the proposals and Hardt and Negri hypothesis why sovereignty has taken a new form, composed of a series of national and supranational organisms united under a single logic of rule; secondly, the Barber who ...