title: Conclusion
abstract: This book began with the observation that contemporary geopolitics has given rise to forms of expansionary power that seem to elude conventional analytics, but that concepts of empire derived from ancient Persia can provide more than the satirical insinuation of hauntingly resurgent "oriental" approaches from the hoary past.An in-depth examination of the sematic field surrounding a millennia-old word that has come down to us as "satrapy" revealed an early material theory of imperial sovereignty,