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

The Guardian view on Trump’s omnipresence: commanding attention like a king

Sarah Bush and Lauren Prather

The Guardian
June 4, 2026

The Strategic Aftershocks of Trump’s Iran War

Rebecca Lissner

Foreign Policy
April 20, 2026

Emergency Response Rooms and Collective Action in Sudan

Noaman Elwaleed Mousa

CSIS Into Africa Podcast
April 9, 2026

AI is Quietly Reshaping Nuclear Risk in South Asia

Sahar Khan

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network
March 27, 2026

Iran Has All the Hallmarks of a Forever War

Will Walldorf

Foreign Policy
May 6, 2026

Americans Actually Support U.S. Global Leadership

Rebecca Lissner

Council on Foreign Relations
April 16, 2026

Amid Shaky Ceasefire, War in Iran is Starving Sudan

Rachel George

Just Security
April 9, 2026

Trump’s War Is Punishing the Poor, Starting at the Gas Pump

Jeff D. Colgan

The New York Times
May 14, 2026

PaxGlobal Voices

Jeffrey Pugh (Creator)

UMASS Boston Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development

Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does — and doesn’t — change about warfare

Dennis Murphy

The Conversation
April 2, 2026

Eisenhower’s lessons in alliance management

Mary S. Barton and James Graham Wilson

Engelsberg Ideas
April 1, 2026

How massive US footprint in the Gulf became a bullseye overnight

Sahar Khan

Responsible Statecraft
April 23, 2026