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

key strategic challenge

Ending World War II

Japanese PM Fukuda addresses a territorial dispute that has rumbled on for over six decades. 

by the numbers

Reality bites for Gazprom

Russian Flag

Has Gazprom neglected its core business in favour of lavish and irrelevant acquisitions?

shorts

Belarus: nuclear spring

The poisonous legacy of Chernobyl still scars life in the country.

Argentina: gloom and gridlock

A 30-day 'truce' expires on Friday.

Dousing the dragon's flame

Japan-China relations are stagnating.

Estonia: Stone Age spring

Spring in Estonia promises renewal -- of cyber attacks.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk:
the Horn of Africa

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One Week Later....

Developments, Apr 18 - 24.

Clinton: tough arithmetic

Hillary lags by 131 convention votes.

Carter blasts Rice

Secretary of State was 'untruthful'?

Paraguay: end of an era

End to over 60 yrs of Colorado rule.

US election

US presidential coverage

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