The World in 2009 – 21Th november 2008
America's new hope
But in 2009 Barack Obama will have to learn how to say no both at home and abroad, argues John Micklethwait
Buckle up
Leaders: Come to order
The year of unsustainability
Banning the bomb
Shocking science
The perils of sharing
English marks a million
United States
The audacity of change
Mr Obama goes to Washington

Goodbye Guantánamo
Pick your scenario
The bucks stop here
National Association for the Alleviation of Credit Pandemonium
Crime, interrupted
An end of hubris
Europe
Nice project, shame about the voters
One vote after another disturbs the European agenda

Ever greater union
Take your partners
A French semi-revolution
Europe: After the fiesta
North stars
Same old Silvio?
Message from Madrid
Swaggering on
An answer to the Russian question
Twenty years of capitalism: was it worth it?
Frozen conflicts
Britain
Maybe, prime minister
Gordon Brown’s chances of surviving the year in office

Old order, new oil
Canada's clashes
Building on the B in BRIC
Asia
Riders on the storm
Asia will enjoy moderate growth and lower inflation in 2009

A rocky and a hard place
A subcontinent votes
After the Olympics
Twitching China
Shock and aftershock
Hurry, Murray-Darling
Indonesia sets an example
Large issues and medium powers
Middle East and Africa
Iraq wants its sovereignty back
Arguments over the pace of America’s withdrawal will persist

Going nuclear in Iran
Full of angst
Buying the world
Everything to play for
Putting Africa on the map
Closing the knowledge gap
International
A bad year for diplomats
Multilateralists of the world, despair!

About 2008: sorry
Long shots for 2009
The great wheel of China
Scramble for the seabed
The museum-building binge
Farewell to youth
Isaiah, chapter 100
Special section: Environment
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen?
Don’t count on a climate-change deal

Life on Man
Cancer killers
Dark secrets
A fin-tuned design
Piece of mind