Bridging the Gap promotes engagement between 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 OUP 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 & Past Work

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

- Stephen Del Rosso, The Carnegie Corporation of New York

BTG in the Media

Can Feminist Foreign Policy Keep Its Promises?

Katie Whipkey

Modern Diplomacy,
November 14, 2025

Why everybody is hating on NGOs

Suparna Chaudhry

NPR Think,
October 24, 2025

The Pillars of the Global Nuclear Order Are Cracking

Rebecca Lissner

Foreign Policy,
January 5, 2026

PBS Global Perspectives 

Lawrence Rubin

PBS,
November 9, 2025

NATO Did Not Cause Putin's Imperial War

James Goldgeier and Brian D. Taylor

The Washington Quarterly,
Winter 2026

Group aims to get teachers to run for legislative seats

Bruce Jentleson

Capital Tonight,
January 5, 2026

The Folly of India’s Illiberal Hegemony

Muhib Rahman

Foreign Affairs,
November 12, 2025

Episode 101: Nuclear South Asia
Sahar Khan

John Quincy Adams Society Security Dilemma,
January 2026