ABSTRACT
There is much ado about the engagement between the academic study and practice of international relations (IR) today. Some have even gone as far as to try to measure the gap through exhaustive surveys and content analysis of IR's top journals and books. Others have turned asking where policy makers themselves find IR scholarship meaningful to their work in the "real world". This chapter restricts the tremendous luxury of learning from those who occupy the space. IR is making modest progress with initiatives such as the Bridging the Gap program and the academic-run Monkey Cage series in the Washington Post. The Monkey Cage, in particular, is a forum in which serious IR scholarship is translated into clear language, reaching a much wider audience in a timely manner that empowers IR scholars to react publicly to issues of the day with serious analysis and prescriptions. It also allows those in the world of policy and practice to react to these ideas.
