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.
WorldVoices: DSK, Politics, and Morality
[Editor’s Note: WorldVoices—a recurring feature of the WorldPolicy blog—links to opinion and analysis of current events from English-language news sources around the globe.]
By Julie Mellin
World Policy on Air: Mira Kamdar
Mira Kamdar, senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, former Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, author of the book Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World, believes that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is playing to his conservative base with his widely-condemned move to exile his nation's Roma minorities.
Retirement Unrest Reflects State of French Health Care
The French government is under pressure to cut spending, considering the budget restrictions expected for 2011, and one of its potential strategies--increasing the retirement age--has already met with public disapproval.











