COMMENT Next time you have a spare moment turn over a few pages in an imagined atlas of our muddled world.
The first of its maps highlights what you might call disordered spaces – where states have lost the monopoly of force needed to sustain order and the rule of law. A second delineates the parts of the globe where poverty and disease are endemic. The next plots flashpoints – centres of extremism, insurgency and political violence. A fourth, those regions with young and mobile populations. The fifth and final in the series delineates rich concentrations of natural resources – oil, minerals and the rest.
