Analysis

Edward Stourton explores the prospects for post-revolution government, following the Arab Spring. Elections are being held, but can voters be sure autocratic rule is in the past?

As Greece teeters on the brink of ejection from the Eurozone, Chris Bowlby reveals the scenarios likely to follow a return to the Drachma. Originally broadcast in February 2012

Is the value of money determined by anything more than our willingess to believe in it? Frances Stonor Saunders tries to understand the fundamentals.

Can war between Iran and the West over Iran's nuclear programme be averted? Leading Israeli, Iranian, American and British voices speak to BBC Analysis; Edward Stourton examines the West's options.

Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Downing Street's favourite intellectual. Janan Ganesh of The Economist investigates his appeal.

Should Germany be the model for our future economy? Some British politicians, especially in the Labour party, think so. Matthew Taylor, a former policy adviser to Tony Blair, asks whether this is realistic.

The American primaries - Justin Webb explores what they reveal about the state of the right in the US. Is the Republican party really split? Has a radical wing taken over? What does the American right offer in the post financial crisis world - that might enthuse Americans and perhaps the rest of us too? And is the party ready to lead again?

Wages have failed to rise in line with profits since the early 1980s. Duncan Weldon, a senior economist at the Trades Union Congress, goes in search of the possible causes.

Europe thinks the unthinkable - what happens if the Eurozone splits. What would happen to the banking sector, how would a new currency be put in place, can contagion be halted, and more fundamentally could the Euro survive? Chris Bowlby runs through some of the scenarios of what may happen if a country were to withdraw, and, crucially, what would happen next.

After the Arab Spring, Islamic parties have won elections: should the world fear or trust them? Sheikh Rachid Gannouchi, an influential Islamist thinker, just returned from London to Tunis and won elections. Owen Bennett-Jones investigates his ideas combining Islam and democratic values.

New school league tables have been brought in by the government to help parents choose - but do we really know what makes a good school? And how far can schools transform the lives of its pupils?

Defenders of capitalism are turning against the undeserving rich. Edward Stourton asks those on the centre-right who now condemn financial excess, what they would actually change?

UK Immigration: were the unprecedented numbers of people migrating to Britain in the Labour era the result of a policy accident or design? In a programme originally broadcast on 8 February 2010, towards the end of the last parliament, David Goodhart looks at the arguments and ideology behind Labour’s immigration policy – including the claim that it pursued deliberate policy to increase diversity. We hope you enjoy this programme from the Analysis archive, which we offer you while Analysis is off air.

Are the political elite losing touch with how most voters really live, asks Michael Blastland in this edition of Analysis, originally broadcast on 22 June 2009. We hope you enjoy this programme from the Analysis archive, which we offer you while Analysis is off air.

Certainty: is the lust for it a sin? And if so, should politics fear for its soul? Michael Blastland makes a plea for policy makers to be less sure of themselves in "Dead Cert", originally broadcast on 6 November 2008. We hope you enjoy this programme - which we offer you while Analysis is off air.