Here at the Duck and elsewhere, there has been much discussion of the gaps between academia and the policy world. I took part in a program that seeks to bridge that gap--the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship--which I have mentioned here...
My colleague, Matt Kroenig, has generated a ton of buzz (and not a little vitriol) for his Foreign Affairs piece in which he advocates imminent US military action against Iran. What's probably less...
Stephanie has seconded below Drezner's challenge to name three books most useful for a President-in-waiting. Please obey her.These should not be academic in nature because, Dan implies, politicians...
Erik Voeten, one of my colleagues at Georgetown, writes at the Monkey Cage that:International relations, and especially (inter)national security, is the subfield of political science where the gap...
Lots of noise of late about the "relevance" question in political science, some of it thoughtful, so of it not so much. While this is obviously an old question -- indeed, in some ways, it's the oldest question in the discipline, dating back to the original efforts to place the study of politics on some kind of scientific footing in the early part of the 20th century -- I find myself thinking about it a lot these days, both in the context of university administration (which is one-half of my day job) and as a result of the dislocatingly bizarre experience of attending the European SGIR...
(A blog response to "The Academy Strikes Back" by Dan Drezner.)Also, see here and here.
This weekend, I traveled to Washington with five of my "Global Agenda-Setting" students for their final exam. It consisted of an oral presentation of their collaboratively authored strategy paper at the headquarters of the NGO for whom the document was prepared, the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict. It was an extremely polished brilliant presentation, the culmination of an enormous amount of work, and I felt enormously tremendously proud watching it (and the CIVIC staffers' positive reactions). I also shared the students' relief that, after a month of late nights agonizing over...
This is none too pithy, but tonight (this morning?) I’m just going to toss up a whole stream of ideas that have been percolating since the first BioNote discussion and took shape while I was attending the ISA conference in San Francisco. They relate to a very problematic final chapter I’m struggling over now in which I attempt to account for the role I’ve played (by researching a non-barking dog) in inadvertently getting the dog to bark. Many of us do this of course - interface with the real world in ways that put us inside the subject matter we’re studying – but there are not good formulas...