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.
Censorship with a Pretext
Both Pakistan and Venezuela are using spurious claims about dangerous speech and violent images as a pretext for censorship, to our alarm.
THE INDEX - July 8, 2010
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Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, has been transforming the nation’s military from a professional fighting force to an armed militia under the command of the president, according to a senior military strategist and one-time member of the Venezuelan military. Over the past decade, there have been
