The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

FP's Global Thinkers weigh in on the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.

DECEMBER 2012

 

For the fourth year in a row, Foreign Policy polled our list of the world's leading thinkers to ask about everything from the Chinese Communist Party's grip on power to Hillary Clinton's electoral prospects in 2016. So here's a look at what this brilliant collection -- everyone from presidents to dissidents, activists to artists -- has to say about the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.

Charts show number of respondents out of 65.  

 

Participants (65): Daron Acemoglu, Ai Weiwei, Joyce Banda, danah boyd, Willem Buiter, Chen Guangcheng, Yevgenia Chirikova, John Coates, Eliot Cohen, Rima Dali, Roger Dingledine, Esther Duflo, Mohamed El-Erian, Martin Feldstein, Jonathan Haidt, Husain Haqqani, Farahnaz Ispahani, Jameel Jaffer, Robert Kagan, Robert D. Kaplan, Abraham Karem, Eugene Kaspersky, Maryam al-Khawaja, Daphne Koller, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Kai-Fu Lee, Bjorn Lomborg, Ma Jun, Thomas Mann, Patrice Martin, Moncef Marzouki, Nick Mathewson, Nadim Matta, Ed Morse, Richard A. Muller, Charles Murray, Adela Navarro Bello, Andrew Ng, Beth Noveck, Martha Nussbaum, Norman Ornstein, Ricken Patel, Thomas Piketty, Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, Nabeel Rajab, Raghuram Rajan, Tariq Ramadan, Shai Reshef, James Robinson, Emmanuel Saez, Sana Saleem, Sima Samar, Ruchir Sharma, Radoslaw Sikorski, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Hew Strachan, Scott Sumner, Sebastian Thrun, Vivek Wadhwa, Wang Jisi, Jocelyn Wyatt, Yu Jianrong, Luigi Zingales, Jonathan Zittrain, Slavoj Zizek.