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

key strategic challenge

Mopping up Merrill

John Thain, AKA 'Wall Street's Mr Fix-It', takes charge of the embattled bank on Saturday.

by the numbers

AIDS: overestimated growth?

HIV growth (courtesy UNAIDS)

As World AIDS Day looms, it seems the HIV epidemic is not growing as quickly as earlier predicted.

shorts

Lebanon: touching the void

Factions are still frantically trying to find an elusive compromise presidential candidate.

EU: the missing leader

EU members cannot agree on how to distribute emission targets between them.

Bother in Bosnia

A political crisis between divided communities may spiral out of control.

Beijing: finicky about FDI

Please invest in our futures market; not our golf courses.

one week later....

Developments, Nov. 23 - Nov. 29

Rudd takes control

Incoming PM unveils cabinet.

Putin galvanises electorate

How to hold onto power.

Political Masterstroke

This week... Vladimir Putin

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Jargon Buster

Climate change jargon

Planet Earth Too much talk of targets and science is unhelpful. But so is alarmism.«