Is the Wordl Global or is The North opposed to the South and the West to the East?

The expected accession of Turkey to EU and the death of Osama Bin Laden is posing, once more, the question of the contrasts and their possible solutions between Arab traditions and western democracies. The E-W oppositions are adjoined to former N-S disparities which contributed to make EU also internally differentiated. Then, for the moment it seems not possible, not only to realize any sort of global world, but even one simple kind of a limited globalization which could recall the ancient grandeur of the coasts along the Mediterranean Sea, as in the huge past of Greek civilization and Roman Empire times. For the moment we only do have a “global war”.