The World Policy Institute understands that policymakers and opinion leaders need creative ways to catalyze innovation and engage wider coalitions in solving some of the world’s biggest challenges. By working with artists focused on the same issues, this cross-cutting initiative seeks to build a new, collaborative model for social change.
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.
Islam and Chechnya
Text by Judith Matloff, photos by Diana Markosian
With the Kremlin’s approval, Islam is flourishing in Chechnya—a means to maintain at least a veneer of tranquility while keeping even more radical forces at bay.
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Less is More: Reducing American Nuclear Missile Defense in Europe
By Elizabeth Pond
Two cheers for the first result of the sequester—scrapping the last stage of Washington's planned ballistic missile defense in Europe.
Not because this is what Moscow has been stridently demanding for two years, but because this decision serves America's own best interest.
