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
NATO Did Not Cause Putin's Imperial War
James Goldgeier and Brian D. TaylorThe Washington Quarterly,
Winter 2026
Group aims to get teachers to run for legislative seats
Bruce JentlesonCapital Tonight,
January 5, 2026
Episode 101: Nuclear South Asia
Sahar Khan
John Quincy Adams Society Security Dilemma,
January 2026
Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change.
Felicity VabulasAsia Experts Forum,
January 27, 2026