In this episode, Dr. Rajneesh Verma, Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Intellesia Institute joins Dr. Nabarun Roy, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at South Asian University to speak about the field of International Relations in policy-making. Dr Verma is also an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations at China's Huaqiao University.

Laying the conceptual introduction to the policy-academia divide in international relations, Dr Roy and Dr Verma discuss a range of themes including the application of theory in policy making, the current state of cross-field contribution in International Relations by looking at specific country cases like the US, Europe, China and India and the challenges ahead in order to bridge this gap.

Attribution:
The Bridge Project (2020), "Decoding the Policy-Academia Divide in International Relations", 1(1), 15 March 2020, URL: https://www.buzzsprout.com/921337/3011449

Music Credits:
Inspired by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Show Notes
1. Stephen M. Walt (2012), 'What role should IR scholars play in policy-making?', Foreign Policy.
2. Stephen M. Walt (2009), 'The cult of irrelevance', Foreign Policy.
3. Joseph Lepgold (1998), 'Is Anyone Listening? International Relations Theory and the Problem of Policy Relevance',  Political Science Quarterly, 113(1), 43-62. doi:10.2307/265765
4. Joseph S. Nye Jr. (2008), 'Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy', Political Psychology, 29(4), 593-603.
5.  Nick Taber (2018), 'How Xi Jinping is Shaping China’s Universities', The Diplomat.

Dr. Verma can be reached at [email protected]. Dr. Roy can be reached on Twitter @NabarunRoy15