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.
Less is More: Reducing American Nuclear Missile Defense in Europe
By Elizabeth Pond
Two cheers for the first result of the sequester—scrapping the last stage of Washington's planned ballistic missile defense in Europe.
Not because this is what Moscow has been stridently demanding for two years, but because this decision serves America's own best interest.
A Cold History Puts a Freeze on New Talks
By Elizabeth Pond
The North Korean rocket launch and Kim Jong-un's repeat of his dad’s dance of the seven veils in nuclear negotiations may have monopolized the headlines this week, but the occasion that made the Korean peninsula the center of the universe was actually the second Nuclear Security Summit held in South Korea.











