Thinking About a Policy-Oriented PhD in International Relations?

Joined by fellow International Relations PhD candidate Torrey Taussig, they breakdown the common motivation for pursuing a policy-relevant doctoral degree. Drawing from their time at Beaver Creek, they provide lessons learned and find that “a policy-oriented PhD is not for most people interested in pure scholarship or policymaking.” Instead, they argue that “the policy world should be explicitly sought by a subset of researchers who earnestly want to bend their analytical skills to inform policymaking.” 

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