Introduction / Suranjit Kumar Saha and David Parker. -- Theorising globalisation and sustainable development / Suranjit Kumar Saha. -- Privatisation and neoliberalism: the European experience and the lessons for Latin America / David Parker. -- Latin America: a socio-economic profile / Suranjit Kumar Saha. -- Mercosur at the crossroads: a common market for South America or for the Americas? / Marcos Costa Lima. -- Latin American integration: regionalism or globalisation? / Raúl Bernal-Meza. -- Chile: the consequences of privatisation / Francisco Domínguez. -- Amazonia and the regional question in the context of globalisation / David Ferreira Carvalho. -- Globalisation and the prospects for sustainable development in the northeast of Brazil / Tania Bacelar de Araújo. -- Crisis and mediation in social and agrarian relations: the case of Acre / Wilson José Barp and Rosa Baganha Barp