Dickey Center for International Understanding

Alumni of the E. John Rosenwald, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellows Program at the Davidson Institute were at the table recently when Bridging the Gap convened a Washington, D.C. workshop on strategy and escalation — one of the most consequential questions in U.S. foreign policy right now.

Katy Powers, herself a former Rosenwald Postdoc and now Associate Professor of Government and faculty coordinator for the Davidson Institute's War & Peace Fellows program, joined Rosenwald alumni Professor Dan Altman (Georgia State University), who co-organized and moderated the workshop, Professor Alexandra Chinchilla (Texas A&M University), and Professor Abby Post (Leiden University) as panelists. Powers, Chinchilla, and Post each prepared policy memos for the session, which brought together scholars and policy community members from think tanks and government to address pressing questions about escalation dynamics and U.S. competitive strategy.

It's a good illustration of what the Rosenwald program has built over the years: a network of scholars who are doing rigorous research and shaping the policy conversation — often in the same room.

Bridging the Gap's New Voices in International Security series is designed to bring emerging and established scholars into direct engagement with policymakers.