A view of the world

 

Based on Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations thesis, which asserts that in the post-ideological world after the Cold War, most major conflicts will be based, as traditionally, on culture and religion, immemorial sources of group identity.

Makes sense to me.

From a distance, seems to me that China is driven not by Marxist ideology but by nationalism. Chinese pianist Lang Lang's insulting choice of music at the White House was about being Chinese; had nothing to do with ideology. (If an American had done that in China, it would not be about "nationalism"; it would be called "racism".)

Doesn't mean, of course, that conflicts within these regions won't happen --humans are usually just as enthusiastic in murdering their kinfolk as their neighbors or distant aliens. Just for one example, Muslim Arabs and Muslim Iranians do not like each other. Are the French and Americans really allies? The Vietnamese, the Chinese, the Koreans...hardly pals. But these are more micro-conflicts and they multiply easily.

The two yellow "lone" nations are Black/French Haiti and African/Orthodox Ethiopia...and I guess, in this map, Israel.