In the final chapter, Giesen discusses some novel characteristics of contemporary global society. After the collapse of the bipolar world at the end of the twentieth century, social analysts, economists, and politicians increasingly termed the new age as the age of globalization in which nation states are replaced by transnational global regimes as the most advanced pattern of societal organization. While Giesen contends that nation states are still important and not going anywhere, he acknowledges the rise of global regimes. Global networks and institutions may have already existed in the past but global regimes, organizations and events have become for the first time a defining feature of a human society spanning the globe. Contemporary society is further characterized by an unprecedented acceleration of communication and circulation (of goods as well as people), processes of cultural homogenization but also cultural hybridity and differentiation. In a global and digital world, locality and bodily presence seem to have lost importance but Giesen insists that they are more significant than ever.