For more than a decade, foreign policymakers and international relations academics have lamented the growingrngulf between their fields. The foreign-policy people have complained that the academy remains aloof, ignoring real world problems and instead focusing on increasingly abstruse theorizing, ornate formal models, and quantitative noodling.rnThe other problem, though, is that policymakers show little interest in investigating the cause-and-effect assumptions that underpin their policy decisions.
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