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.
Tags: The German Draft, Dodged For Good
[Above: West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer reviewing troops from the newly-established Bundeswehr in 1955. Image courtesy of Bundesarchiv.]
By Elizabeth Pond
BERLIN – After half a century of honorable service, German conscription is bowing out.
