Table of Contents:
  • Towards a new global linguistic order? / Jacques Maurais
  • The geostrategies of interlingualism / Mark Fettes
  • Language policy and linguistic theory / Douglas A. Kibbee
  • Babel and the market : geostrategies for minority languages / Jean Laponce
  • Forecasting the fate of languages / William F. Mackey
  • Language geostrategy in eastern and central Europe : assessment and perspectives / Ferenc Fodor and Sandrine Peluau
  • Languages and supranationality in Europe : the linguistic influence of the European Union / Claude Truchot
  • Regional blocs as a barrier against English hegemony? The language policy of Mercosur in South America / Rainer Enrique Hamel
  • Effects of North American integration on linguistic diversity / Michael A. Morris
  • Sociolinguistic changes in transformed Central Asian societies / Birgit N. Schlyter
  • Language and script in Japan and other East Asian countries : between insularity and technology / Stefan Kaiser
  • Sub-Saharan Africa / Roland J.-L. Breton
  • Australasia and the South Pacific / Richard B. Baldauf Jr. and Paulin G. Djité
  • The international standing of the German language / Ulrich Ammon
  • Arabic and the new technologies / Foued Laroussi
  • Russian in the modern world / Vida IO. Mikhalchenko and Yulia Trushkova
  • Geolinguistics, geopolitics, geostrategy : the case of French / Robert Chadenson
  • Towards a scientific geostrategy for English / Grant D. McConnell
  • On Brazilian Portuguese in Latin American integration / Maria da Graça Krieger
  • The search for a global linguistic strategy / Humphrey Tonkin.