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.
Democracy: the Real Winner in the Bo Xilai Scandal
By Elizabeth Pond
Suddenly, a generation after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, democracy, or at least proto-democracy, is again in the air in China. Space has been created for reformists like outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao and Guangdong party chief Wang Yang.
China vs. the US: A Booming China Rejects Western Interference (Part 3)
(The Friends of the Columbia University Libraries sponsored a December 7, 2011 lecture by Seymour Topping, Emeritus Professor of International Journalism, on "China Faces the United States From Mao in Yenan to Korea, Vietnam, and Challenges today." Professor Topping discussed how the root experiences of the Chinese leadership, which he observed in Yenan, Mao's remote
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In a speech given at Columbia University on December 7th, Seymour Topping remembers his 50 years as a journalist, much of it as a correspondent in China.
The Roots of a Love-Hate Relationship
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