Policy and the Publicly Minded Professor

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¹ Many of these activities have been generously supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For a partial listing of some of these impressive programs, see Lena Andrews, Rebecca Friedman Lissner, Julia Macdonald, Jacquelyn Schneider and Rachel Whitlark, 6 May 2015, ‘Getting Involved in Policy: An Overworked Grad Student’s Guide,’ War on the Rocks, 28 Oct. 2016, <http://warontherocks.com/2015/05/getting-involved-in-policy-an-overworked-grad-students-guide/>.

² For my view on this divergence, see Francis J. Gavin, ‘International Affairs of the Heart,’ Yale Journal of International Affairs (Sept. 2012), <http://yalejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/irscholarsforum/Francis%20J%20Gavin.pdf>.

³ For an overview of this perspective, see Francis J. Gavin and James B. Steinberg, ‘Mind the Gap: Why Policymakers and Scholars Ignore Each Other, and What Can be Done About It?’ Carnegie Reporter (Spring 2012), <http://teaching-national-security-law.insct.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Carnegie-Corporation-of-New-York%C2%A0Mind-the-Gap.pdf>.

⁴ For an excellent critique of this idea, see David Kennedy, ‘Thinking Historically about Grand Strategy’, <http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/Kennedy_ThinkingHistorically.pdf>.

⁵ For an excellent, broader guide to policy relevance by political scientists, see Michael Horowtiz, ‘What Is Policy Relevance,’ War on the Rocks, 17 Jun. 2015, http://warontherocks.com/2015/06/what-is-policy-relevance/.

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Francis J. Gavin

Francis J. Gavin is the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and inaugural director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS – Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, most recently, of Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014).