Introductory outline : "Global village or global pillage?" A new architecture and new architects / The local and the global in financial crises / The uneasiness of globalization : notes on the role of migrations in the world society / Globalization without enemies or enemies of globalization? / Mobility in the globalized economy / Industrial relations and globalization : some reflections based on the Canadian experience / The audacity of America : historical origins of the new world order / Oppositional tendencies to the (more or less) one-party system in the United States / Globalization : the role of parties and movements in the democratic transition / Continental drift : European integration and American hegemony / The impact of globalization on the American South : culture, ecology, and economy / Mondo esotico : globalization through green-colored glasses / Globalization and problems of intergraded analysis in the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterrorialization caused by the nets frameworks : some meaningful examples / Reconciling economics and ecology to address global issues / Language and law in the era of globalization / The pathologization of the female body in the post-Fordist era : notes for feminist considerations about globalization / Globalization and its challenge to higher education : some reflections of a European Americanist educator and life-long learner / Globalization and the prospects for cosmopolitan society / Concluding remarks