The World Next Week - Forward-looking Intelligence from Oxford Analytica

key strategic challenge

India: Listen to the Marxists

India’s stuck-in-the-mud Marxists feel vindicated in their caution.

Jargon Buster

'La Francophonie'

Space shuttle main engine block

Inside a curious organization of (more or less) French-speaking countries.

shorts

CIS: Electoral stunts

The elections in two former Soviet republics could not be more different.

Africa: EPA wrinkles

The EU and Africa are all set to miss a trade deadline.

Lebanon: Opposites attract

A meeting between Hizbollah and an old enemy may help both sides.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk: US recession

by the numbers

Political futures' chequered past
Futures prices for republican candidates

Markets’ power to predict elections is clear -- but it is limited by their small size.

Political Masterstroke

US election

US presidential coverage

Read The World Next Week's coverage of the 2008 US Presidential Election