What Do Policymakers Want From Us? Results of a Survey of Current and Former Senior National Security Decision Makers

Avey, Paul C.; Desch, Michael C.

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“…obrannou politiku nabízejí způsob, jak umožnit strukturovanější přemýšlení o komplexních a dlouhodobých otázkách obrany i těm, kteří postrádají relevantní vojenskou či akademickou průpravu. Bez propracovaných scénářů hrozí, že veřejnou diskusi o obranných otázkách ovládne novinářský pohled, [34] který často vytváří zploštělé argumenty výlučně ukotvené v momentální situaci opomíjející dlouhodobější výhled. [35] Místo závěru: kontrafaktuály a scénáře ano, ale… Scénáře a kontrafaktuály představují nezastupitelný nástroj jak z pohledu vědce zejména při teoretickém výzkumu, tak z pohledu praktika, jemuž nabízejí nástroj k učení se, formulaci praktických doporučení a ukotvení dlouhodobého plánování.…”

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Back to the Future: Counterfactuals and Scenarios in Defense Research and Planning

Kofroň¹

2015

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Back to the Future: Counterfactuals and Scenarios in Defense Research and Planning

Kofroň¹

2015

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“…Data shows that senior policymakers rely heavily on newspapers for making their decisions, and blogs associated with some prominent newspaper outlets (e.g. The Monkey Cage and FiveThirtyEight ) could be already infl uencing the perception of policy issues of some policymakers as well (Avey and Desch 2014 ). Scholars with an interest in policy, naturally, read those outlets too.…”

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“…Although it is far from the only thing that is being published, top-tier journals in international relations do tend to publish more and more articles that apply quantitative methods and formal modeling than not (Maliniak et al 2011 ). However, data shows that the knowledge needs of policymakers deciding on national security aff airs, for example, are better served by knowledge coming out of contemporary and historic case studies drawing upon expert knowledge of a given area of the world (Avey and Desch 2014 ). To policy makers and for the time being, area studies and qualitative research are methodologies as valuable as sophisticated quantitative techniques, if not more valuable.…”

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Why, and How, to Bridge the “Gap” Before Tenure: Peer-Reviewed Research May Not Be the Only Strategic Move as a Graduate Student or Young Scholar

Bertucci

2015

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Graduate students and young scholars with a passion for making a diff erence in the real world through research are often advised to put those dreams to rest until after tenure. This contributes to the enduring frustration on both sides of the "theory-policy gap" but it is sound advice-as of right now tenure decisions tend not to take into account publications appearing in policy outlets. However, the job market-and some of the most important mechanisms used for making promotion decisions in academia-suggest good strategic reasons for trying to have your research infl uence policy as early in your career as possible.

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“…3 And although many of these anecdotes are informative, they fall well short of being evidence sufficient to verify a larger trend. In effect we have no real sense of where the gaps lie, how large they are, or how to begin conceptualizing a solution.…”

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A Gap Exists! But It Is Smaller and More Specific Than You Think

Heger¹

2014

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In recent decades, many who are involved in international relations and foreign policy have bemoaned the increasing divide between what practitioners do and the issues scholars research. Accusations from both sides have detailed what appear to be entrenched institutional cultures with few possibilities for change. The bridge linking these two communities appears to be broken. Despite myriad attacks, evidence on either side of the divide is desperately lacking. In this report we present a preliminary analysis of original data intended to shed light on the extent and type of gaps between scholars and different types of practitioners. Our examination reveals that the practitioners are, in fact, consuming research and scholarly material. This is consistent for all types of practitioner organizations including non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, governmental institutions, and business associations. However, a preliminary analysis of scholarly behavior reveals a very different trend whereby scholarly work seems much more isolated to scholarly circles. Thus, we conclude that a one-way bridge is a more accurate characterization of the connection between the practitioner and scholarly communities. A Gap Exists! (But it is smaller and more specific than you might think)In recent decades, many who are involved in international relations and foreign policy have bemoaned the increasing divide between what practitioners do and the issues scholars research. Accusations from both sides have detailed what appear to be entrenched institutional cultures with few possibilities for change. Practitioners have been accused of unethical behavior, bias, and not embracing evidence as a means to guide public policy. Scholars have been characterized as aloof, increasingly theoretical to the point of impracticality, and detached from the "real world." The divide, if you listen to the critics, has put these two communities on divergent paths separated by a chasm that seems to widen each day. In his assessment, Thomas Mahnken characterized the reality as such:In a fundamental sense, scholars and policymakers today inhabit two different worlds-the world of ideas and the world of action. These worlds operate according to their own rules, and over time have attracted different types of inhabitants. (Mahnken 2010, 7) 1 Yet there is broad agreement that the widening divergence is detrimental for both sides. At a minimum, it is unfortunate that those responsible for crafting public policy and those charged with analyzing it effectively ignore each other's viewpoints. At a maximum, this sort of discord leads to ineffective policies, ill-prepared younger generations of practitioners, and inapplicable scientific advances. For those policymakers concerned with international security and conflict, the picture might be particularly grim.The international community's approach to [conflict] prevention is too often akin to physicians prescribing treatment without prior diagnosis. Policymakers confront political imperat...

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What Do Policymakers Want From Us? Results of a Survey of Current and Former Senior National Security Decision Makers

Cited by 94 publications

References 36 publications

Back to the Future: Counterfactuals and Scenarios in Defense Research and Planning

Back to the Future: Counterfactuals and Scenarios in Defense Research and Planning

Why, and How, to Bridge the “Gap” Before Tenure: Peer-Reviewed Research May Not Be the Only Strategic Move as a Graduate Student or Young Scholar

A Gap Exists! But It Is Smaller and More Specific Than You Think

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