The benefits of bridging the gap between academics and policymakers are well-known, but much of the research and practice is based on experiences in the United States. How well does it translate to other countries? A recent collaboration between Bridging the Gap (BtG) and Monash University in Australia highlighted significant differences between the countries’ policy-academic ecosystem – and underscored the need for further BtG-type training...
Maria Rost Rublee is Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne, with expertise in international relations, including nuclear politics, maritime security, and gender and diversity in national security. She is President of Women in International Security-Australia, an Executive Committee member of Women in Nuclear-Australia, and was recently named to the U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List (Top...
Typical energy transitions unfold over 50 to 100 years. The urgency of the climate challenge means that humanity doesn’t have that kind of time. While market developments in renewables and electric vehicles are favorable, even those developments will not transform the energy landscape without concerted government policy. The Biden Administration is trying to re-shape the American economy to support this transformation through incentives that...
Alongside research and teaching, most tenure-track jobs come with some expectation of service.
Sibel Oktay is associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois—Springfield and a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Her research investigates the domestic politics of foreign and security policy in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East with a focus on institutions, public opinion, and leaders. Her publications appear in the Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of...
Current trends in the academic job market paint a bleak picture. Data from U.S. universities reveal a drop in job postings in the Politics field over the past three years and a decline in tenure-track positions over the last decade. For 2021-22, APSA reported that 53.12% of job listings were non-tenure track. Meanwhile, in the UK, 54% of academic job advertisements across disciplines were for fixed-term positions. With an excess of PhD...
Consuelo Thiers is a Fellow in International Security at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals – IBEI. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a Master's in International Studies from Universidad de Chile. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of psychology, international relations, and security studies. Her research interests include enduring rivalries, political psychology, foreign policy...
Carol Cohn is the G.O.A.T. Back in 1987, she wrote what is still the best gendered take on the pathologies of deterrence in a piece called, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.” It absolutely demolishes the cult of the missile bro. And every deterrence scholar I know who’s not a caveman kneels before this article with overt praise. Many swear they even teach it. Yet, modern deterrence theory is basically all...
Robert Cox’s landmark article, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela…
Even well-intentioned warnings of political violence in the United States potentially leading to civil war may inadvertently strengthen the very same actors who are intent on making civil war a reality.
Just like Al Qaeda in its heyday, armed accelerationists in America are strategic actors who take advantage of narrative ammunition that is handed to them.
A narrative perspective lends itself to pro-active approaches, not just appropriate restraint.
Paul Lorenzo Johnson, independent researcher, USA, holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Davis. His research interests include civil–military relations, grayzone warfare, and genocide prevention. Recently, he was a co-editor of the Routledge publication Militias, States and Violence against Civilians, and his research has appeared in the journals Armed Forces and Society and Conflict Management and Peace Science