Friends and family often ask, “So why a PhD?” It is a common question for doctoral students in any field, one posed by earnest relatives over the holidays, concerned parents fretting financia...
http://warontherocks.com/2017/10/thinking-about-a-policy-oriented-phd-in-international-relations/
Each summer, the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin runs a week-long summer seminar in history and statecraft for doctoral students and newly minted PhDs. ...
http://warontherocks.com/2016/08/lessons-on-history-and-statecraft-from-a-rocky-mountain-seminar/
As of 2011, 73 percent of active component soldiers in the U.S. Army had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, experiencing firsthand the complexity of getting things done in ungoverned and under-reso...
http://warontherocks.com/2016/06/a-military-guide-to-civilian-knowledge-about-fragile-states/
Here at War on the Rocks, Joshua Rovner has written an insightful and provocative essay about the origin and nature of what seems to be a permanent rift between those who study security and those...
Forty years ago an intense controversy gripped the intelligence community over estimates of the Soviet strategic threat. Hardliners outside the community had complained that intelligence analysts...
http://warontherocks.com/2016/04/warring-tribes-studying-war-and-peace/
Policymakers have called for more rigor in the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) system for over three decades — at least since the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Skelton Panel of 1989, ...
http://warontherocks.com/2016/02/rigor-in-joint-professional-military-education/
In recent weeks, the relationship between the national security state and the academy has come under increasing scrutiny. This debate is important because universities play an essential role in e...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/11/what-crisis-scholarship-and-national-security/
Critics bemoan the lack of policy relevant scholarship in academic international relations (IR). This perspective overlooks a burgeoning cluster of academic IR studies that address one of the mos...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/08/scholars-help-policymakers-know-their-tools/
In a conversation a few years ago with one of us, a senior political scientist from a prominent Ivy League university asked for insights on how to offer defense policy advice on a contemporary Mi...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/08/political-scientists-and-the-military/
One important component of policy relevance has thus far received little attention in the Schoolhouse series here at War on the Rocks: chutzpah. It often requires courage for a scholar to take a ...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/07/policy-relevant-scholarship-whats-chutzpah-got-to-do-with-it/
In recent years, many public-minded international relations scholars have bemoaned the divide between academic scholarship and policy debates. Too often, academics are asking narrow questions tha...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/06/how-to-bridge-the-gap-between-policy-and-scholarship/
Editor’s Note: This is the latest article in our special series, “The Schoolhouse.” The aim of this series is to explore and debate the state of advanced graduate education in international...
Editor’s Note: This is the latest article in our special series, “The Schoolhouse.” The aim of this series is to explore and debate the state of advanced graduate education in international...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/05/educating-the-u-s-military-is-real-change-possible/
After our article for WOTR’s Schoolhouse series on the state of policy training for graduate students in international relations, it came to our attention that many graduate students are unawar...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/05/getting-involved-in-policy-an-overworked-grad-students-guide/
When I was preparing for Senate confirmation in 2012, an advisor tasked with ensuring I made it successfully through the process cautioned me about how members of Congress might perceive me. “Y...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/03/mind-the-gap-spanning-the-divide-between-academics-and-policy/
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series “The Schoolhouse”. The aim of this series is to explore and debate the state of advanced graduate education in international affairs. We aim to mov...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series “The Schoolhouse”. The aim of this series is to explore and debate the state of advanced graduate education in international affairs. We aim to move...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/02/a-view-from-the-trenches-of-ir-training/
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series “The Schoolhouse”. The aim of this series is to explore and debate the state of advanced graduate education in international affairs. We aim to move...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/02/u-s-social-science-and-international-relations/
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first installment in our new series “The Schoolhouse” The aim of this series is to explore and debate the state of advanced graduate education in international...
America’s higher education system, and in particular, its advanced graduate training, have long been the envy of the world. Richly endowed and highly respected, universities in the United State...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/02/the-schoolhouse-remaking-education-in-international-affairs/