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

key strategic challenge

Colombia's trade deal

President Alvaro Uribe wants to ink a bilateral trade deal with the US. How will Uribe sidestep Democrats' resistance? «

emerging trends

Republican Showdown

The Republican showdown should be the encounter to watch as presidential candidates take to the debating floor next week.

Gazprom ascendant

Is it worth a private energy company doing business in Russia?

Libya: Deceptive change

Progress on economic reform has been entrusted to Seif al-Islam, one of Muammar al-Qadhafi's sons.

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Sarkozy's European gamble

Nicolas Sarkozy wants to get off to a flying start in Europe to bolster his reputation in France before parliamentary elections and for personal reasons.


Chinese butcher working on a pig

China: A Pig's Ear?

Read the numbers on the Blue Ear disease epidemic raging through China's pigs.


Iran to face G8 hostility

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has just reiterated that he would not give in to demands that his country suspend uranium enrichment over fears it is developing nuclear weapons.


the subtext

Chavez's Media War

What's behind Chavez's fear of opposition television? «

by the numbers

question of the week

Q: Are lobbyists corrupting US politics?

A: The ability to “petition the government for a redress of grievances” is constitutionally guaranteed in the United States…«

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