Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus 
Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus is a fortnightly series of articles on the role of art in public policymaking. This series invites WPI fellows and project leaders as well as external practitioners to contribute pieces on how artists have led policy change and how policymakers can use creative strategies.
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
Calendar of Events 2007
December 20, 2007– IRAN IN CAMPAIGN 2008
An invitation-only briefing session on U.S. policy toward Iran, with Marcus Mabry, Amb. Peter Galbraith, and Neguin Yavari, moderated by WPI's Sam Natapoff.
December 10, 2007 -MY COLOMBIAN WAR
Book reading and discussion with author and senior fellow Silvana Paternostro.
December 10, 2007 –TRADE IMBALANCE: THE STRUGGLE TO WEIGH HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN TRADE POLICYMAKING
In this discussion, co-author Susan Aaronson exposes the insights and controversies surrounding trade agreements, and even trade per se, which many say undermines particular human rights such as labor rights or access to affordable medicine.
December 5, 2007 – IMAGINING NABOKOV: RUSSIA BETWEEN ART AND POLITICS
Book reading and discussion with author and senior fellow Nina Khrushcheva
November 9, 2007 –AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER
A discussion with journalist Roland Jahn and senior fellow Belinda Cooper.
November 5, 2007 – IGNITING AMERICA’S CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY: THE POER OF ECONOMIC VISION
Book launch and discussion with U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Washington State) and
Center for American Progress Fellow Bracken Hendricks, authors of Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
October 1, 2007 –THE SIEGE OF MECCA: THE FORGOTTEN UPRISING IN ISLAM’S HOLIEST SHRINE AND THE BIRTH OF AL-QAEDA
Book launch with author Yaroslav Trofimov.
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June 1, 2007 – POLITICAL HUMOR AND POLITICAL REALITY
An evening of performance and discussion dedicated to political humor with Ira Shorr, Bill Hartung and Scott Blakeman.
April 14, 2007 –SALUD!
A featured film in the United Nations Film Festival, ¡Salud! is a timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, and looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’
March 5, 2007 – JOSCHKA FISCHER: TRANSATLANTIC DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF TERRORISM AND WAR
Joschka Fischer, Germany's Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2005, discusses the shared domestic and foreign policy challenges facing democracies on both sides of the Atlantic.
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