The Academic-Policy Divide
The Academic-Policy Divide
Scholars have less influence over Washington policymaking than they like to think.
As we were wrapping up these internal discussions, in my scholar-cum-political appointment, policy-neophyte state, I realized that I had little sense of how to actually pull visas, something that more seasoned career foreign policy hands would know intimately. I also didn’t know what would happen if not all the government agencies affected by this decision agreed. Our decision would mean nothing if it was not implemented speedily and effectively. Then I realized that perhaps the often clunky government bureaucratic process would mean that the visas would not be revoked immediately, as I...
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