Promoting scholarly contributions to public debate and decision making on global challenges and U.S. foreign policy.

Bridging the Gap promotes engagement between the scholarly, policy, and public spheres to inform debate and decision making on U.S. foreign policy and evolving global challenges.

We equip scholars of all levels with the skills to produce influential policy-relevant research and theoretically grounded policy work. We also promote and facilitate the dissemination of cutting-edge research on problems of concrete importance to governments, think tanks, international institutions, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and the broader public. Within the academy, we are driving changes in university culture and processes designed to incentivize public and policy engagement.

Core Programs

Bridging the Gap creates new opportunities for policy-relevant scholarship that are deeply respected inside research universities as well as useful to policy and decision makers.

BTG - OUP Book Series

The Bridging the Gap Series publishes manuscripts that are written to engage both academic and policy audiences, and make significant contributions to debates in both communities.

Additional Initiatives

Bridging the Gap continues to innovate with new opportunities relevant to research universities as well as useful to policy and decision makers.

Resources

“Good policy is informed by good ideas, and good ideas are not formed in a vacuum.”

- Stephen Del Rosso, director of the International Peace and Security (IPS) program at the Carnegie Corporation

BTG in the Media

Integrating the Art and Science of Wargaming

Bethany Goldblum and Andrew Reddie

Lawfare Blog, March 16

The U.N. Security Council Was Designed for Deadlock — Can it Change?

Anjali Dayal and Caroline Dunton

U.S. Institute for Peace, March 01

Munitions Return to a Place of Prominence in National Security

Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach

War on the Rocks, March 16

Will the American-Ukraine Consensus Start to Crack?

Bruce W. Jentleson

National Interest, February 22

Violent Extremism, Innovation, And Recruitment In The Metaverse

Austin C. Doctor, Joel S. Elson, and Samuel T. Hunter

Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, March 07

The Persistence of Great-Power Politics

By Emma Ashford

Foreign Affairs, February 20, 2023