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Publication Date:: 10-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: This piece focuses on the obstacles facing the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan. In order to defend the United States and its allies against further terrorist attacks, the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan seeks to destroy Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organisation and topple the Taliban regime which hosts it. However, significant obstacles stand in the way of victory. Washington appears to have embarked upon a long-term simultaneous military, political, diplomatic and economic strategy to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan. However, given the absence of any credible pan-Afghan leaders and the deleterious effects of more than two decades of internecine warfare, this approach carries high risks. They include even greater political fragmentation of the country, continued war and possible regional destabilisation.
Topic:: Defense Policy
Political Geography:: Afghanistan, United States, and Middle East

Publication Date:: 10-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) met on Wednesday, September 26, in Vienna. The uncertainties associated with the international oil market have been greatly compounded by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Topic:: Security
Political Geography:: United States, Europe, and Middle East

Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) met on Wednesday, September 26, in Vienna. The uncertainties associated with the international oil market have been greatly compounded by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Topic:: Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States, Europe, and Middle East

Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: The president this week signed into law a 40 billion dollar emergency appropriations package in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The package forms part of considerable planned spending increases, which in combination with expected tax cuts, will result in the country's fiscal position deteriorating significantly. This will have important implications for Federal Reserve policy, the bond market, and long-term global interest rates.
Topic:: Foreign Policy, Economics, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States

Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: The World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington were on Tuesday subjected to devastating terrorist attacks. The atrocities will prompt a wide-ranging review of US security and intelligence systems which, on Tuesday's evidence, failed spectacularly.
Topic:: Security, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States

Publication Date:: 08-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: This piece focuses on the use of flexibility in European integration. Flexibility — the possibility for a number of member states to deepen cooperation without the others — has always been a sensitive subject in discussions about the advancement of European integration. As the next wave of enlargement approaches, a number of member states have been keen to ensure that provisions for flexible cooperation are strengthened, a goal achieved in the Treaty of Nice.
Topic:: Political Economy
Political Geography:: Europe

Publication Date:: 08-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: This piece focuses on the performance of and prospects for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) programmes. The number of employees and employers who have benefited from programmes designed to counter the effects of certain trade agreements has expanded dramatically during the past few years. Such trade adjustment assistance is likely to be included in future legislation implementing new WTO and other trade agreements, largely to garner support for further trade liberalisation.
Topic:: International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: United States

Publication Date:: 08-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: The real is stabilising against the dollar following the announcement of the latest draft agreement between Brazil and the IMF on August 3. The provision of additional resources by the Fund is designed to support the value of the real and prevent the Brazilian economy from sliding into recession.
Topic:: International Organization, International Trade and Finance, and United Nations
Political Geography:: Brazil and Latin America

Publication Date:: 08-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: In response to regional instability and two years of recession, Uruguay's government has taken measures to stimulate economic growth.
Topic:: International Organization and International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: Latin America

Publication Date:: 08-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxford Analytica
Abstract:: Israel's Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz met senior Turkish defence officials on July 27 to discuss defence cooperation. Israel and Turkey, facing similar strategic problems based on shared interests and fears, are in the process of building the most powerful alliance in the Middle East. They are doing so in the face of opposition from the Arab and Muslim worlds as well wider concerns, notably on the part of Russia. The Turkish-Israeli alliance now appears sufficiently robust, at least for the moment, to withstand opposition from the Arab and Muslim world. Moreover, US support for the entente may grow owing to concerns about terrorism and stability in the eastern Mediterranean basin, as well as the administration's renewed emphasis on stability in the Gulf.
Topic:: Security and Diplomacy
Political Geography:: Turkey, Middle East, and Israel

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