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

key strategic challenge

Armenia: balancing act

This week, President-elect Serge Sarkisian takes office in a hornet's nest.

by the numbers

Weapons of mass reduction

Arms Trade decline

The dynamics are changing at the bottom of the 'peace' index.

shorts

Egypt: rough and smooth

Egyptian democracy is an iron fist in a velvet glove.

North Korea: shadow on the sun?

Pyongyang has resumed the sabre-rattling of earlier years.

Blu-ray, blue riband?

Kicking things up a notch in the high definition disc format war.

Cristina: Ingrid photo-op?

Argentinean president is in Paris.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk:
Korean conflict

NEW Today's Talking Point

Iraq: violence plateau

Wednesday, April 9

slower workmanlike counter-terrorism will now be needed to chip away at remaining elements.

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LanguagesQ: Foreign languages: who needs them?

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One Week Later....

Developments, Mar 28 - Apr 03.

NATO: new members

Welcome to the club.

Colombia FTA challenge

Intense campaigning.

Argentina: unrest dies down

Strikes are suspended.

Political Masterstroke

This week...Zimbabwe's MDC

Jargon Buster

'Agriboom'

Agriboom

While the US economy remains mired, one sector will continue to stand out.«

US election

US presidential coverage

Read The World Next Week's coverage of the 2008 US Presidential Election