Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der zweiten Jahreskonferenz der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie, die im Juni 2000 in München stattfand. Die Beiträge sind für die Politikwissenschaft nur zum Teil interessant. Stattdessen dominieren eher Aufsätze zu literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Aus dem Inhalt: Berndt Ostendorf: Transnationalism or the Fading of Borders (1-21); Thomas J. Courchene: A Human Capital Future for an Information Era (23-37); Jürgen Kähler: Some Cautionary Notes on the New Economic Order (39-44); Ricardo D. Salvatore: Early American Visions of a Hemispheric Market in South America (45-64); Stefan Rinke: Pan-Americanism Turned Upside Down (65-71); Reg Whitaker: "Fortress North America"? New Borders for Old (73-90); John Urry: The Global Media and Cosmopolitanism (91-106); Paul Ashdown: Gunfight at the Cyberspace Corral: Public Intellectuals on the Cyberspace Frontier (107-115); Todd Gitlin: The Unification of the World Under the Signs of Mickey Mouse and Bruce Willis: The Supply and Demand Sides of American Popular Culture (117-129); Susan H. Armitage: Whose Woman? Transnationalism in Gendered Perspective (131-137); John Carlos Rowe: Elián González, Cuban-American Détente, and the Rhetoric of Family Values (139-148); Stephan Palmié: The Color of the Gods: Notes on a Question Better Left Unasked (163-175); Patricia Fernández-Kelly: Ethnic Transitions: Nicaraguans in the United States (177-203); Bharati Mukherjee: The Outsider as Insider: a Commentary on "Transnational America" (205-215).