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

key strategic challenge

Female suicide bombers

Female suicide bombers will be a challenge to stop.

The Truth About...

Cuba after Fidel

1974 Cuban stamp showing Fidel Castro, fist upraised

Fidel’s successor must be careful in leaving his stamp.

shorts

China/Macao: taking it easy

China is applying pressure, but Macao may gain in the long term.

Frankfurt hawks

The ECB will maintain its tough monetary discipline.

Palestinian patch-up

Factions ought to unite eventually.

The Global Stress Points Matrix

Global Stress Point Matrix™

Rising risk: Protectionism

by the numbers

What Putin is made ofRussian stock market data

The Russian government can send markets spinning -- even when it does not want to.

Political Masterstroke

US election

US presidential coverage

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