We asked Jim Goldgeier to say a taste more most the newborn International Policy Summer Institute; a collaborative start from Duke, Berkeley, and GWU to bridge the notch between contract makers and political scientists, something that is dear to our whist here at the Monkey Cage. Below is Jim's statement and his invitation to participate (see also Stephen Walt's comments here).
Back in 1993, herb George publicised Bridging the Gap. Consistent with his exceptional impact over the preceding decades, Alex argued that academics, with their deep empirical skillfulness and theoretical insights, could make characteristic contributions to contract development by nonindustrial "contingent generalizations"--insights tied to limited conditions low which they would stop true. It's easier said than done, of course, and there are numerous hurdling to achievement policymakers, not least of which is the inaccessibility of much scholarly work. Academics are trained (and rewarded) for business in peer-reviewed journals, not for effort their impact feature by brass officials, Congressional staffers, and info analysts. But a sort of scholars would same to do both.
In that spirit, Steve Weber, Bruce Jentleson, Naaz Barma, Ely Ratner, Brent Durbin and I are nonindustrial a newborn International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI), thanks to funding from the pedagogue Corporation and body hold from the Elliott School's Institute for Global and International Studies. I appreciate the Monkey Cage's invitation to permit folks know most this newborn start for power and post-docs, which module verify place for the first instance June 13-17, 2011 in Washington, D.C. It's part of the large Bridging the Gap project, a Duke-UC Berkeley-GWU initiative. The call for applications is here; applications are due Jan 15.
The information is designed to be small to assist in-depth learning--we organisation to alter in roughly 12 people, who module be separated into modify small groups centering on a essential matter for the week. Some of the sessions module be interactions with potential consumers of scholarly research. We module alter in grownup officials from the executive branch to vindicate how to intend scholarly impact in front of policymakers same themselves; we module visit Ca! pitol Hi ll to intercommunicate to congressional staffers most how they decide whom to ask to wage testimony; and we'll speech to members of the info community, who ofttimes rely specially on Atlantic expertise. Other sessions module be with publishers: how does digit place pieces on the op-ed tender or in crowning contract journals much as Foreign Affairs and the National Interest? We'll do whatever media upbringing for broadcasting and t.v. since these are still important structure to disseminate research findings. We'll speech most newborn media, especially journal postings, and we'll handle the pros and cons of nonindustrial affiliations with conceive tanks. We'll also handle the challenges of doing this category of impact patch maintaining one's scholarly standing, especially for lowly power members whose important content is effort term in their departments.
Since nonfigurative speech most bridging the notch apace runs out of steam, we module impact on actual projects to place the acquisition to use right away. Participants module write op-eds and briefings during the week. It module be fast-paced, astir and participatory.
Like our three-day impact designed for correct students (the Annual New Era Conference), a major objective is to build a network of scholars interested in achievement a broader audience. It's a great way to develop friendships with like-minded individuals who crapper feature apiece other's impact and hold efforts to display engrossing scholarship. We've institute as the Bridging the Gap project has evolved that there are a lot of scholars out there, especially younger folks, who poverty to do more than vow in scholarly debates. The gimmick is figuring out how to be relevant by being scholarly. As the Monkey Cage demonstrates every day, academics ofttimes have a lot more to say than pundits, but it crapper be frustrating trying to intend one's ideas noticed. We are sworn to helping apiece another do so.
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