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This essay analyzes the concept of energy security in the Nigerian context. One dimension of Nige-ria’s energy security relates to the country’s crude energy exports. What are the trends in levels and destinations of these exports and what are the future prospects?

Japan is facing hard times. Domestic politics is stuck in a stalemate and is as ever replacing Prime Minister every 12-18 months. Economic growth remains sluggish, the country is burdened with public debt amounting to 200% of the country’s GDP while at the same being confronted with a possibly nuclear-armed North Korea and a militarily growing assertive China. ISPI Studies has invited five authors European, Japanese and American authors to make sense of the current state and trends of Japanese politics, economics and foreign policies.

Nationalism can be defined as a discursive legitimisation of political action through commitment to national interests or ideas based on the mega-narratives of national identity. Poland belongs to states with particularly strong narratives of national identity around which Polish nationalism emerges. The referential narrative framework of Polish national identity has traditionally included three mega-narratives.

Beyond the immediate crises, centring on the inability of countries such as Greece, Ireland and Portugal to finance their public debt without EU/IMF support, at the heart of the Euro crisis lies the increasing divergence in economic performance between the core and the periphery, aggravated by current austerity programmes, especially in those countries with long-standing structural reform deficits. For example, the Commission’s Spring Forecast shows that the worst growth performance forecast in 2011 and 2012 is for Greece and Portugal(1).