Globalization and the Ideologized World Nildo Viana Several books on globalization have been written. Despite this, there is still a great doubt about what globalization is and what its characteristics are. Alexandre Barbosa's book, “ The Globalized World. Politics, Society and Economy [1] ”aims to answer these questions and provide a global analysis of the phenomenon. However, if the objective is interesting and reveals a need to increase awareness about such a phenomenon, the result is not as desired, as we will show below. The author seeks to explain what globalization is, and affirms that it is a present reality, both economic and political and cultural, being the result of the accelerated exchange of goods, capital, information , ideas, from different countries, reducing geographical borders. It is characterized by the expansion of information flows, worldwide; for the acceleration of economic transact...