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

key strategic challenge

Fortress Europe?

France embarks on its six-month EU presidency to create ‘a more protective Europe’ for its citizens.

shorts

Fair value: unrealistic?

The US Securities and Exchange Commission discussing fair value accounting and auditing standards.

Japan: G8 political grandstand

Japan hosts the G8 leaders’ summit at Toyako in Hokkaido.

EU: mangez vos legumes!

Brussels aims to fill school vending machines with fruit and vegetables.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk: US strike on Iran

Today's Talking Point

Taiwan: Relaxed regulation

Wednesday July 09

Taiwan's relaxed financial rules are designed to boost foreign investment and the flagging TAIEX - but may not go far enough. 

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CyclingQ: Role of 'transition towns'?

A: ‘Transition towns’ try to create a future that addresses challenges of diminishing oil and gas supplies and climate change.«

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by the numbers

Climate change: playing ball?

Climate change

A Climate Cooperation Index compares the cooperative behaviour of countries within the international climate change regime.

Jargon Buster

‘Sovereign democracy’

St. Basil Cathedral

While sovereign democracy was the cornerstone of Russia’s ideology under former President Vladimir Putin, his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has opposed the term.

Political Masterstroke

US election

US presidential coverage

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