Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Brandon Valeriano is the Bren Chair of Military Innovation at the Marine Corps ...

I am an academic failure. According to conventional academic metrics—works published and citations cited—I don’t meet the minimum criteria for an early-career scholar. Alternative metrics—such as peer ...

In no other career is failure as common as in academia. A completed dissertation is almost always a Frankenstein-like patchwork of revisions and corrections made in response to reviewers’ (often ...