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

key strategic challenge

Starve thy neighbour

Faced with budgetary constraints, a number of governments have opted to restrict food exports.  

by the numbers

Bush in bog

Bush job approval ratings

Why Bush may feel a kinship with Harry Truman.

shorts

Diplomatic disappointment

A flurry of diplomatic activity on the two Bush administration 'legacy' issues in the Middle East.

Zimbabwe: dead deadline

An important deadline will pass unmet and unmarked on Saturday.

EU: degree of simplicity

Making education comparable.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk:
US economic recession

NEW Today's Talking Point

Gazprom challenges

Wednesday, April 23

Gazprom's capacity to deliver will be severely tested as it tackles an array of ambitious projects.

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Developments, Apr 11 - 17.

Boomerang Berlusconi

Italian PM bounces back on cue

Putin tightens grip

Now Chairman of United Russia

Political Masterstroke

This week...Robert Mugabe

Jargon Buster

Armenia: 'genocide' or 'carelessness?'

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Armenians around the world mark this Thursday as 'Armenian Genocide Day'.«

US election

US presidential coverage

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