A quick map I just made, inspired by a challenge in the AH forum (Baathism as a major terrorist ideology), and with a lot of elements based on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare setting... hopefully, with less insanity. And with a twist.
The POD for this timeline is that Israel fell into Soviet influence in the fifties. The greater vissible consequences came during the Six Days War (that ITTL are known in the West as the First Arab War of Agression.), with an Egyptian vitcory and the consolidation of the United Arab republic and Arab Socialism as a minor Cold War player.
The American abandonment of Israel derived in an almost universal European repulse, and culminated in the split of the NATO (which reformed into the broader, much more hawkish International Defense Protocol, an a bitter Anglo-European Split. America, holding the grip in much of the Middle East and considering the third-worldist leaning UAR as a lesser evil, the United States and the British are much more prone to support Islamist regimes and guerrillas, as a valuable ally against communism.
The Chinese diplomatic openness to the West never happened, and though it still reformed eventually, it never distanced itself from the conventional Socialist agenda as much as IOTL. Communism, now led by China, is doing much better, in spite of the Cold War coming to an end (with a nastier result for Russia). Peru is under the Shining Path control, as as Cambodia IOTL (and until today ITTL), had to suffer a significant purge and reform with time, and now it's not nearly as nasty as it used to be. North Korea is still what it is IOTL, and it mantains a strategical association with China (which is growing icreasingly unconfortable about it), but it's pretty much a wild card by every account.
Europe is much more integrated and hawkish, bound by a common defense program since the sixties, though this has led some European countries to adopt a more pacifist-defensive position than the Core nations of the European Defense Pact. Europe and America have been throwing very negative propaganda on each other for decades, and French is the European lingua franca. None the less they still see each other as the lesser evil, and an all-out conflict between them is as unlikely as their mutual collaboration, though proxy fighting in remote fronts is not to be discarded... after all, it has already happened before.
In this much more tense and unstable world, Indhira Ghandi (and his son later on) effectively assumed dictatorial powers in the mid 80s and permanently reformed India on those lines, eventually taking over a war-torn Burma and starting a full Sikh genocide.
The end of the cold war was less nasty for Yugoslavia, where a full European intervention took place, but leaving a very nasty"rump" Serbia as a legacy. Russia, stripped from much of its influence over Eastern Europe, became even more volatile than OTL, and by the late 2000's, the ultranationalist guerrillas had successfully orchestrated a coup d'etat, with a great popular support.
The United Arab Republic has turned our to be one of the greatest menaces to the global stability. When El-Sadat stepped out, leaving the way clear for Saddam Hussein (who ITTL rules from El Cairo), the regime turned much more anti-Western, and tried to make its ideology more exportable outside the Arab world, presenting themselves as a mix of secular nationalism and economic third-positionist option, and as the heralds of the oppressed stateless nations (the Kurds use to think this is some sort of a grim joke on them).
Apart from being the main sponsor of the IRA, the Tamil Eelam Tigers and ETA, as well as an alternate crypto-mesianic Japanese cell, they have managed to create a neo-bolivarian net in Latin America (outside of Colombia, for the FARC don't like competitors), and secular nationalist groups related to the Iranian, Pashtun, Aceh and Sikh peoples... not to tell the own Arab Nationalist guerrillas. ITTL, Baathism is the Big Bad Wolf as much as Islamism is IOTL.
Brazil pretty much falls in the EuroSphere, but suffers from the same problems of drug traffic as Mexico does IOTL... actually, it's even worse, with large areas of Southern Brazil effectively controlled by the Brazilian Militia, a unified narco-terrorist syndicate. Though they have no political allegiances, they suppy weapons to the Ultranationalist Ukrainian cells, wich makes Europe think about a military intervention.
The world is extremely polarized and unstable, and though this world is militarily much more advanced, it is less advanced in many other fields (notabily, there is no Internet at all, though interactive television is a big deal ITTL). The multiple defensive shields prevent an eventual nuclear exchange to have global consequences, but all in all, the world has assumed for the most part, that it's just a matter of time until a miscalculation sparkles the war the world has tried to avoid since 1945...
