Abstract
<jats:p>In the context of the growing crisis of the global system of relations between nation-states, various ways of pre-serving/protecting sovereignty are being formed, implemented using biopolitical mechanisms. The concept of A. Negri and M. Hardt “Empire” was chosen to illustrate and reveal these processes more fully. Empire is not a new form of power, as the authors of this concept claim, but a collective theoretical construct based on a com-bination of methods and technologies of the impact of capitalism on a globalizing human society. Biopolitics is interpreted not as a derivative concept of Empire, but as an independent tool for managing society. Despite the existing relationship, Empire and biopolitics are not identical phenomena. As a subject of biopolitics, the Em-pire, immersed in “digital”, reaches a new level of domination over man.</jats:p>