How are we training future national security policymakers? Although a relatively small group of elite policy programs produce a disproportionate number of foreign policy decision-makers, there has been little systematic study of how policymakers are taught.
Drawing on an extensive series of qualitative interviews with faculty and students, this project explores how the policy education process might be shaping the way that future policymakers engage with complexity and uncertainty. How are students being equipped to engage with an oft-unpredictable international security landscape? And what can recent insights from cognitive and educational psychology tell us about the policy education process?
Ongoing 2024-2025
Christopher W. Ray 