What Is the Point of This Book?

The civilizational framework is supposed to be an alternative to talking about countries acting in their national interest. But then he breaks up Latin America into all of these subgroups where it's like actually Paraguay is a cleft country. This is another thing is that by the time he's come up with these categories of like, cleft country, lone country, core country, it's like, well, then you were just back to countries.