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.
THE INDEX - June 10, 2010
Iranian officials have closed down a factory that was producing figurines of citizens who died in election protests last year. The factory’s managing director, known only by his initials H.M., had campaigned for an opposition candidate in the elections and made the statuettes to commemorate those who had been killed in their aftermath.
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Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul played host to a summit in Istanbul of 21 leaders of regional powers, including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. All condemned Israel for its blockade of Gaza and especially its deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla of aid ships.
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