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

key strategic challenge

Merkel's regional challenges

The tide could turn against the Chancellor this week in the first big test of voter sentiment since the 2005 general election.

by the numbers

Serbia: the EU factor

Views on EU Meembership of Serbia

The issue of the country's EU membership will dominate the run-up to the election on February 3.

shorts

US/Uzbekistan: rebuilding ties

Diplomatic relations between the countries were broken off in 2005. Will the West resume dialogue?

Hungary: disloyal Socialists

Bad times for Hungarian Prime Minister Ference Gyurcsany are looming.

India: Gandhi looms large

Mahatma's ideas continue to shape political debate.

Oil outlook

Oil's recent slide to below $90 a barrel has relieved pressure on OPEC.

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Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk: commodities price bust

One Week Later....

Developments, Jan. 18 - 24

Serbia pauses for breath

Run-off on February 3

Thailand: return to democracy?

But political divides are unresolved

China tightens price controls

Risk of economic instability this year

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Beijing

China's spring festival heralds an extremely high traffic period.«