EMERGING WORLD A global perspective: sharing ideas across CHALLENGES sectors, ethnicities, national borders, and THINKERS issue silos SOLUTIONS POLICY Catalyzing change through constructive responses to shared challenges Senior Fellows EMERGING VOICES Ruthie Ackerman Alon Ben-Meir For more than 50 years, the World Policy Institute Susan Benesch has nurtured the next generation of thought leaders. Ian Bremmer Belinda Cooper We put a priority on bringing new voices into policy Patricia DeGennaro conversations, refl ecting a diversity and freshness of Claudia Dreifus Siddharth Dube (India) ideas among our fellows, interns, guest speakers, and Stephanie Elizondo Griest World Policy Journal and online contributors. Mira Kamdar (France) Peter Kaufman Nina Khrushcheva Fresh Global Perspectives Fellows Todd Lester • Authors from 37 countries appeared in The World Policy Institute provides a Jeff Madrick James Nolt (China) the pages of World Policy Journal last year. platform, community, and support system Silvana Paternostro Many of these are eminent voices in their for thought leaders with a wide range of William Powers own regions but had not yet come to expertise who make complex global challenges Kavitha Rajagopalan the attention of US or global audiences. accessible and relevant to a wider audience. Swadesh Rana More than half of our authors are women, Andrew Reding in subject areas where women’s voices Internships Sherle Schwenninger typically are underrepresented. Every year, the World Policy Institute hosts Kim Taipale • Senior Fellow Belinda Cooper is and mentors approximately three dozen Masaru Tamamoto (Japan) working with the Center for Truth, students in policy development, publishing, Martin Walker Justice and Memory (Hafi za Merkezi), research, and nonprofi t management. Interns Lissa Weinmann based in Istanbul, to catalogue Turkish hail from top universities around the world, Distinguished organizations memorializing persecuted from Sri Lanka to Singapore, Argentina to Senior Fellows groups. Th e project convenes groups from Australia, and New York to the Netherlands. Eric Alterman around the world to exchange experiences Recent interns have gone on to hold positions Alan Wolfe on historical memory, minorities and in business, policy, and media organizations security, and democratization. including the White House, TD Bank, Project Leaders Merrill Lynch, the Peace Corps, The Caravan • Th e Arts and Policy Incubator brings Elmira Bayrasli (India), USAID, and ABC News. together artists and the policy community Monique El-Faizy to fi nd creative ways to reach hearts and Michelle Fanzo minds—and, in turn, hands and feet. Spotlight on World Policy Paul Hockenos (Germany) Intern Alumnus — Damaso Reyes (Spain) Saim Saeed, 2010–2011 Khadija Sharife (South Africa) David Stevens In 2007, Saim was 16 years old and one Neelam Verjee (Kenya) of only two Pakistanis studying in India. Sidestepping the visa restrictions to travel Associate Fellows across a country that was much maligned Erica Dingman but hardly visited by Pakistanis, Saim faced Shaun Randol questions about his identity by Indians and Pakistanis alike, an experience that shaped his thinking on nationalism in South Asia. Now a senior at Bard College, Saim was recently awarded the 63rd annual Student Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA) award at West Point. In June 2012, he published a New York Times op-ed, “Shouting in the Mirror,” on the daily border ceremony between Pakistan and India. IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY DEBATES Dangerous Speech Senior Fellow Susan Benesch has developed a groundbreaking analytical framework for distinguishing between language that is merely repugnant and that which has a chance of inciting atrocities. The framework offers strategies for limiting the catastrophic effects of dangerous speech in pre-genocidal situations without impeding the right to freedom of expression. The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide adopted some of her criteria when issuing public statements on Libya and Ivory Coast. Trainers at Fort Bragg, home of the US Army Special Operations, briefed soldiers deploying to Kenya on the fi ve defi ning characteristics of dangerous speech as part of a session on radio. Benesch’s Spring 2012 World Policy Journal cover article, “Words as Weapons,” has become required reading for a University of Texas class on contemporary communications. It was featured in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, TheBrowser, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Asia News, Ekantipur (Nepal), The Times of India, and a PBS podcast. The Water-Energy Nexus The Water-Energy Nexus paper continues to receive media mentions a year and a half after its release. The paper has been cited in many publications such as GreenBiz, Sustainablebusiness.com, Salon, Forbes, Reuters, Japan Times, PG&E’s Next 100, and was even sourced at the Top: From Hate Speech Bonn2011 Conference. It has been used in presentations by professors to Social Networks: Susan Benesch at Yale Law School of Environmental Sciences and Global Health. Diana Glassman, WPI Director and the paper’s co-author, spoke on the Water-Energy Nexus Middle: World Policy at the Water Summit V in Milwaukee and was quoted in the Milwaukee President Michele Wucker, ClimateWeek 2012 Journal Sentinel, WisBusiness, Environmental, Health and Safety News, and Courier Post Online. Left: English and Chinese editions of Twelve by Twelve, by William Powers Redefi ning Prosperity Below: Artist rendition of Inspired by William Powers’ award-winning book Twelve by 12’x12’ installation. Twelve, in its fourth printing and released in Chinese in late 2012, (Photo: Betsy Damon, the Redefi ning Prosperity project is building a global grassroots Simon Draper, David D’Ostilio) coalition to stimulate dialogue around the interplay among smart consumption, well-being, and sustainability. A national publicity Opposite page: World Policy tour paired with an experts roundtable in New York, digital coalition Project Leader Monique El-Faizy on the Egyptian building, and a package of World Policy Journal articles exploring elections “How Much Is Enough?” exposed several million people to the book’s look “beyond the American dream.” In 2013, we will construct an interactive 12’x12’ house and art installation in New York City, intended to spark thought and refl ection leading to smarter consumption. The next phase of the project will engage partners around the world, particularly in rapidly growing developing nations, to commission 12x12-inspired structures in their cities. BROADENING THE Our audience includes opinion leaders CONVERSATION and policy makers at the highest levels, as well as the new generation of emerging leaders. World Policy Journal has readers in 166 countries. Followers of @WorldPolicy on Twitter quadrupled in 18 months and expanded to nearly 150 countries. “Islam and Chechnya” A photo essay by Diana Markosian for the Spring 2012 World Policy Journal Portfolio. Seda Malakhadzheva, 15, sits beside friends as they adjust her hijab, which she began wearing despite her parents’ disapproval. Women who go out uncovered are targets. For weeks last summer, men in cars drove through town shooting paint-balls at women without headscarves. Top Left: A geographic representation of all @WorldPolicy’s Twitter followers (courtesy of Tweepsmap). WORLD POLICY JOURNAL For more than 30 years,World Policy Journal has been known for lively, intelligent writing that challenges conventional wisdom. Four times a year, we cover the most pressing issues in global aff airs, injecting new ideas and fresh approaches into public debate and discovering new writers and stories before they hit the front pages. An essay about innovation World Policy Board member Peter by science fi ction writer Neal Marber’s Spring 2012 article, “Brave Stephenson in the Fall 2011 issue New Math,” made waves far beyond generated over 100,000 visits to the economic sphere. His call to worldpolicy.org in just a few days replace faulty indicators like GDP, after mentions in The Economist, infl ation, and unemployment with a The New York Times, Mother Jones, greater diversity of new metrics was and Wired. Arguing that short- cited in the Freakonomics blog, The term thinking and the fear of Daily Beast’s The Dish blog, and in failure hampers global innovation Caijing, China’s leading independent and calling for creative thinkers to business magazine. put their energies into inspiring scientists and engineers, the article also attracted attention from the futurism, tech, science fi ction, and pop culture communities. The article has been a call to arms of sorts for a new “solarpunk” movement that uses science fi ction to create visions for a sustainable future in a world of increasing scarcity. French scholar Olivier Harvard international affairs Roy’s Winter 2012 article, professor Stephen Walt cited David “Breakthroughs in Faith,” was Unger’s Spring 2012 article “New featured as a “best of the moment” Internationalism” as one of the best article on TheBrowser, and on articles of the moment on the web, Andrew Sullivan’s blog on The saying Unger’s “prescriptions are a Daily Beast; and was widely big step toward a less hypocritical circulated by leading experts and and more effective foreign policy makers from Paris to Israel policy.” Stanley Pignal’s article to India. on EU regulation and tightening integration was widely read in Brussels. WORLD POLICY EVENTS 2011-2012 CONVENING STAKEHOLDERS World Policy Roundtables By bringing together experts