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.
Egyptians Show Solidarity With Tortured Syrian Cartoonist
By Ghazala Irshad
The first cartoon displayed in the Cairo Atelier gallery was the last one Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat published on his website before being attacked in Damascus in August: a panicked President Bashar Assad hitching a ride in a getaway car with Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.
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