democratic industrialized countries
	GB: ministerial emphasis on science and green tech
	France: unions on strike
	Germany: congrats to US on pres-elect obama; concerns with european jobs

US relations strained with military occupation in iraq

Various states of transition
	Japan: recession, negative consequences if the big countries start going under, large economy
	China: UN warns of increasing divide, rich/poor, gap getting larger
	Russia: criticized US for responsibility of global economic crisis, missile defense systems
		Obama doesn't want to setup MDS b/c of cost/cold war similarity, may be criticized as backing down from russia

Developing Countries
	Nigeria: investment in space tech
	india: separatists in casimir
		starting to get a voter turnout to influence local governemnt
	mexico: war on drugs, keep drugs out of US to discourage production
		arresting key cartel members, causing an increase in violence b/c turf is up for grabs
		issues in tijuana
		current administration (calderone) has a weak mandate
		
	iran: one of the cabinet members removed b/c lied about his degrees, interior minister Kordan
		viewed as a defeat for amedinejad (wanted to keep kordan in office)
		new interior minister chosen by amedinejad