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.