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

key strategic challenge

EU-Russia: sound and fury

Soviet propagandists could not have cooked up the circumstances surrounding the EU-Russia Summit.

shorts

Syria: inspector calls

IAEA officials will visit Syria to examine allegations that it was building a secret nuclear reactor.

Argentina: high-handedness

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government remains focused on damage-limitation.

Gazprom after Medvedev

Gazprom holds its annual general shareholders' meeting.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk: Argentine default

by the numbers

China: ecological footprint?

Bamboo Forest

Beijing vies with the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Political Masterstroke

The Truth About...

N. and S. Korea Globe North Korea: migrant troubles

The South Korean feature film 'The Crossing' may find an unusually receptive audience.«

US election

US presidential coverage

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