THE NEW WORLD is a story of realignment. It is an attempt to mark what is quite visibly the end of the dialectic between the nation-state and alliance (i.e., the US and the North-Atlantic) and between the nation-state and alternatives (e.g., Brazil and Latin America), a recognition that the paradigm of containment has failed (with China), and that a restructuring of partnerships is coming (with the Americas headed toward a rapprochement).