The goal of this discussion paper is to question – and to ask questions about – one particular issue in the international approach of universities and higher education, i.e., the question of languages. Both the internal and external use of language(s) are at stake. They have been discussed in most countries in recent months in the more intellectual newspapers, quite often in direct connection with the Globalization issue, hence almost inevitably in reductionist terms and from a polemical perspective regarding English. In July, 2010, the important scholarly society for research on Organization and Management, called EGOS, devoted its 32nd seminar to: ‘Englishization and Language Diversity’ (EGOS, 2010: 30)1. It is on the basis of their tradition and their scholarly contribution, but also on the basis of research in other areas of cultural and scholarly dynamics that we want to argue in favour of a research-based approach to one of the fundamental challenges of our planet.