Conceptual and historical issues -- For a post-colonial geopolitics -- Emerging empire and the civilizing powers of intervention -- Waves of Western theory -- Modernizing the other and the three worlds of development -- The rise of neo-liberalism and the expansion of Western power -- Archipelagos of critical thinking -- Societies of insurgent theory: the dependentistas write back -- Exploring other zones of difference: from the post-modern to the post-colonial -- Geopolitics in a globalizing world -- Post-colonial questions for global times -- 'Another world is possible' - on social movements, the zapatistas and the dynamics of 'globalization from below' -- Conclusions: beyond the imperiality of knowledge.