This sounds like an interesting project: three bright young people (admittedly, two of them are friends of mine, so this is a bit of an advert ) are mounting a website dedicated to global election analysis. Here’s an extract from their mission statement:
NeoElect idea was born when we realized that over 120 elections occur [...]

In the wake of Berlusconi’s election victory in Italy, the BBC’s Europe editor Mark Mardell brings us a brilliant blog entry on what could become an interesting constellation at the EU: Sarkozy and Berlusconi.
My favourite quote:
Diplomats in European capitals are scratching their heads, trying to work out how these two little men with big [...]

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has proposed an Organisation of Latin American States on his visit to Mexico, El País reports.
The idea is old, very old. Ever since their independence, Latin American states have tried to associate themselves into integration projects of all varieties. The result of it is a veritable spaghetti bowl of partially [...]

No, I haven’t given up writing this blog. I’m just really busy right now, writing papers, doing funding applications, and all other sorts of stuff. I’ll be back in due course. Anyway, here are some things that I would comment on if I had more time and energy:

The recent NATO summit and its implications (especially [...]

Or: High Politics according to Hugo, Rafa and Álvaro
Now that the diplomatic crisis in the Andes is over, it’s time for some analysis: what did it all mean? Well, many things. Let’s start from the beginning.

Why did Ecuador get ticked off? - Last weekend, Colombian military forces entered Ecuadorian territory in order to kill a [...]

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has ceded ground on his Mediterranean Union initiative, El País reports. After a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel, he has agreed to inscribe it within the EU framework of the Barcelona Process.
In a very Sarkozy fashion, the Mediterranean Union was intended as a French initiative outside the EU framework - [...]

The US have already done it. Russia refuses to do it. So does Serbia. And in the middle, as so often, a headless EU that can’t agree on what to do, so in the first instance the member states are not doing anything but negotiate amongst themselves. We’re talking, of course, about the recognition of [...]

Speedy Sarko and Super Lula
Interesting developments on the Colombia/Venezuela argument front: internationally hyperactive French presidentNicolas Sarkozy and Brazil’s president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva are buddying up to resolve the issues, El País reports. They are meeting today on the border between Brazil and French Guyana to discuss how the two countries could be persuaded [...]

When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez took on the new role of mediator with the Colombian FARC rebels over hostages, it was already clear that before long, things would go pear-shaped. And, alas: in late November 2007, Colombia’s President Álvaro Uribe lost his patience and halted the mediation “effort”.
Ever since then, Hugo has been peeved with [...]

Such or similar appears to be the logic of Brazil’s president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in favouring an entry of Venezuela into MERCOSUR. Yesterday, the Constitutional and Justice Commission of the Brazilian Parliament gave the first go-ahead for the accession with a vote of 44 in favour to 17 against.
In spite of MERCOSUR’s rules, [...]