This book follows on from "As Portas de Dante", published by MGI (Lisbon) and Revan (Rio de Janeiro). It deals with a less than encouraging view of the international situation, which, for various objective reasons, is heading towards a situation of convergent polycentric collapse. The end of the Cold War, instead of bringing the dream of "eternal peace", has paved the way for an era of disordered globalisation that has resurrected ghosts that were supposed to be dead. Far from a new horizon of appeasement, there is an increasingly clear horizon of generalised destruction.