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

key strategic challenge

emerging trends

Olmert in Washington

Olmert will be pressured by the US.

Challenge for Croatia's judiciary

Retired generals go on trial for war crimes.

India and China War wounds

An eighth round of talks on contested territory in the eastern Himalayas looms.

Seoul and Tokyo to lock horns

Officials will meet to discuss dispute over economic zones.

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Merkel: Summit Supremo?

Angela Merkel

Merkel needs to convince Poland to accept the proposed revisions of the EU's draft Constitutional Treaty.


Russia's Radar Diplomacy

Russia's Radar Diplomacy

Why Washington will bluntly reject Russia's proposal to base its missile system in Azerbaijan.


John Ruggie

California's 'foreign policy?'

The Golden State moves towards a referendum on troop withdrawal from Iraq.

 


the subtext

"From our Baghdad Correspondent"

Is "mouse journalism" the best our correspondents can do? «

by the numbers

It's midway through the US surge in Iraq. Is it working?

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John Ruggie

Ruggie's Rights

International relations professor to speak up next week.

question of the week

Q: Will Republicans desert Bush?

A: The spiralling chaos in Iraq has created overwhelming pressure to break with the president…«

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