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.
Europe Tames its Far Right
By Elizabeth Pond
Europeans are slowly managing to ring-fence their xenophobic right. In their own ways, Norway, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are all defying the fears that Europe's worst financial and economic crisis in eight decades might again provoke a catastrophic political slide to the far right on the pattern of the 1930s.
Switzerland to Germany: "We're not Crooks!"
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By Elizabeth Pond
"We are not crooks!" declared my dinner companion after we introduced ourselves at a banquet on a Mediterranean cruise on the storied Sea Cloud a few years back. There was no hint of badinage, only a preemptive defense of his amour-propre. He was a Swiss banker.
THE INDEX - June 17, 2010
The Swiss Parliament has passed legislation allowing UBS officials to hand over the names of 4,450 American tax evaders to the Internal Revenue Service immediately.
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