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

key strategic challenge

US: getting tough on soft drinks

Increasing adolescent obesity is attracting considerable attention in the United States

by the numbers

Pessimism on Main Street

Optimism Index

Small businesses in the United States are in a blue funk.

shorts

Peace comes to Bethlehem

Is true peace unattainable without true grass roots reconciliation?

China's struggles with democracy

There are two struggles in China over democracy, one in Hong Kong, and one in Beijing.

Europe: season of strikes

Transport workers might frustrate the plans of hundreds of thousands of travellers this Christmas.

Globe Trotters

Globe Trotters is on holiday and will return in the New Year

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Credit CrunchWord of the Year: 'subprime'

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The World Next Year

An examination of the major themes and issues facing the world in 2008.

Publication: December 31.

one week later....

Developments, Dec. 14 - 20

Lee: lingering suspicions

Allegations of past wrongdoing

Zuma emerges victorious

Sources of tension remain

Musharraf lifts emergency rule

Free and fair elections impossible?

Political Masterstroke

This week... Jacob Zuma

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