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.
China: The Patron of Global Buddhism?
By Elizabeth Pond
China is making its strongest bid yet to establish a reputation as the patron of global Buddhism. It will follow up its third World Buddhist Forum in Hong Kong (April 25-28) by sponsoring an international peace conference in the Gautama Buddha's Lumbini birthplace in Nepal (April 28-30).
How the Wukan Revolt Could Change Chinese Politics
By Elizabeth Pond
The Arab Spring may be spreading to China after all. For the first time since the country became prosperous—and more than half a billion subsistence farmers were lifted out of abject poverty—critical peasant mass is colliding with an unpredictable shift to the next generation of Communist Party leaders.
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