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.
Changing of the Guard: China's New Politburo
By Jonathan Brookfield
One of the world's most important political events is slated to occur this fall. And I don’t mean the U.S. presidential election but rather the selection of a new set of members for the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party in the People's Republic of China.
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.











