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

key strategic challenge

Argentina: agro aggro

Facing down angry farmers.

by the numbers

The point of no return

Tipping the scales

How warm is too warm for our climate?

shorts

Turkmenistan: laughing gas

Nobody knows how much gas Turkmenistan actually has.

Japan: road rage

Embattled Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda has run into difficulties.

India: villains and villeins

A controversial rural employment scheme.

Olympic torch: lightning rod?

The Olympic flame arrives in Beijing on Monday.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk:
China/Taiwan

NEW Today's Talking Point

Cuba: ringing the changes

Wednesday, 2 April

Mobile phones will be made available in a 'gradual and orderly fashion'.

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Developments, March 21 - 27.

Zimbabwe: vote rigging

Second reading delayed.

Ma brings the thaw?

Return from political oblivion.

Mexico: reform delay

Limited room for manoeuvre.

Political Masterstroke

This week...Heathrow Terminal 5

Jargon Buster

Macedonia: the name game

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The roots of the dispute with Athens lie in the breakup of Yugoslavia 17 years ago.«