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.
(Dis)Honorable Mention: Autocratic Runners-Up
Our Autocracy Index sparked questions over which leaders should have made the list. The following 10 heads of state ranked high enough to merit a (dis)honorable mention in World Policy Journal's Autocracy Index.
The Runners Up
11. Vladimir Putin (Russia)
12. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (Turkmenistan)
13. Thein Sein (Burma)
14. Meles Zenawi (Ethiopia)
[Deceased Aug. 20, 2012]
15. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud (Saudi Arabia)
16. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran)
17. Idriss Deby (Chad)
18. Hu Jintao (People's Republic of China)
19. Hugo Chavez (Venezuela)
20. Bakiyev Bakiyev (Kyrgyzstan)
[Photos courtesy of World Economic Forum, Bohan Shen_沈伯韩, United Nations, Norway UN, Ammar Abd Rabbo, Daniella Zalcman, Rama, London Summit, ¡Que comunismo!, and Steele C. G. Britton]
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Tags: Ahmadinejad, Autocracy Index, Bakiyev, Berdymukhamedov, Chavez, Deby, democracy, government, Hu Jintao, King Abdullah, Putin, Thein Sein, Zenawi
