This book, one of the last published in his lifetime, has two conferences unequal length ("The right of the strongest" and "The 'world' of Lights come") raised similar issues around a thought of the event to come to that Derrida has devoted many years of his work.
Within the context of globalization, sign par excellence of our time, Derrida reflects on a number of issues such as, for example, different readings resulting in the relatively recent concept of "rogue state"; the increasing dissolution of 'nation-state' and the deconstruction of the concept of sovereignty; also entails the difficulty today still use terms like "war" or "terrorism"; the relationship between reason and strength (power) and the role (or would play) the various international agencies in the field of democracy (to come).