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Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

January 01, 1970

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy. Founded in 2019, the Quincy Institute has been described as advocating realism and restraint in foreign policy. The organization is located in Washington, D.C. and is named after former president John Quincy Adams

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Formation2019; 5 years ago (2019)
Type501(c)(3) organization
84-2285143[1]
Board Chair
Andrew Bacevich
Websitequincyinst.org

History edit

The Quincy Institute was co-founded by Andrew Bacevich, a former U.S. Army officer who fought in the Vietnam War and later became a professor of history at Boston University.[2] Bacevich is currently chairman of the board at the Quincy Institute.[3]

Initial funding for the group, launched in November 2019,[4] included half a million dollars each from George Soros' Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch's Koch Foundation.[5][6][7] Substantial funding has also come from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.[8] The institute distinguishes itself from many other think tanks in Washington, D.C. by refusing to accept money from foreign governments.[9]

The think tank is named after U.S. President John Quincy Adams who, as secretary of state, said in a speech on July 4, 1821, that the U.S. "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."[9] It has been described as "realist" and "promot[ing] an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing."[10][11]

David Klion wrote: "Quincy's founding members say again and again that 9/11 and the Iraq War were turning points in their careers."[9]

Purpose edit

The Quincy Institute states that it is a nonprofit research organization and think tank that hosts scholars, participates in debates, publishes analysis pieces by journalists and academics, and advocates for a "less militarized and more cooperative foreign policy".[12] According to its statement of purpose, it is opposed to the military-industrial complex described by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address.[12]

Co-founder Trita Parsi, an Iranian-born author and analyst, has described the Quincy Institute as "transpartisan", and, according to The Nation, has described the need for "an alliance of politicians on the left and right who agree on the need for restraint, even if they do so for different reasons".[9][13] Bacevich said: "Our purpose is to promote restraint as a central principle of U.S. foreign policy — fewer wars and more effective diplomatic engagement."[14]

According to The Nation, the Quincy Institute founders believe that the existing foreign policy elite is out of step with the American public, which is "far more skeptical of military adventurism".[9] Mother Jones said that the Quincy Institute offers "a rare voice of dissent from foreign policy orthodoxy."[15]

Daniel W. Drezner, writing in The Washington Post, described the institute as a "think tank that advocates a sober version of restraint", and said that it joined the Cato Institute, the Center for the National Interest, and New America "in the heterodox foreign policy basket".[11]

Hal Brands, writing in Bloomberg News, described it as a "well-funded think tank" that is part of the "restraint coalition", a "loose network of analysts, advocates and politicians calling for a sharply reduced US role in the world".[16]

Reception edit

Some writers have argued that the agenda of the Quincy Institute is in line with the Trump administration's foreign policy on some issues, such as negotiating with North Korea, but has a different approach from the Trump administration on others, such as U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen.[10][17]

Writing in Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry criticized the "restraints" that the Quincy Institute advocates for as "misplaced and inadequate". Deudney and Ikenberry argue that liberal internationalism would offer a more historically effective basis for institution-based restraint, than transactional agreements between states supported by the geopolitical restraint school.[17]

In January 2020, The Jerusalem Post reported that a number of fellows of the institute, including Lawrence Wilkerson, Stephen Walt, and John Mearsheimer, had been accused of antisemitism for the ways they have criticized the Israel lobby in the United States, AIPAC, and Israel.[14] One such accusation came from Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, describing it as an "isolationist, blame America First money pit for so-called scholars who've written that American foreign policy could be fixed if only it were rid of the malign influence of Jewish money."[18][14] Quincy president Andrew Bacevich described Cotton's claim as "absurd".[19] Aris Roussinos of UnHerd called it "isolationist".[20]

According to an April 2021 article in Tablet, two Quincy Institute fellows have cast doubt on whether the persecution of Uyghurs in China amounts to a genocide.[21]

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there were two resignations in protest at the institute's dovish response to the conflict: non-resident fellow Joseph Cirincione of Ploughshares Fund, who had raised money for Quincy, and board member Paul Eaton, a retired senior Army major officer and adviser to Democratic politicians and liberal advocacy groups. Cirincione said he "fundamentally" disagrees with Quincy experts who "completely ignore the dangers and the horrors of Russia's invasion and occupation and focus almost exclusively on criticism of the United States, NATO, and Ukraine". Eaton said he resigned because he "supports NATO".[15][22] Parsi responded by saying that Cirincione's criticisms "were not only false but bewildering," and were easily disproved by "a quick glance at our website."[15]

Co-founders edit

The Quincy Institute's co-founders include:[12]

Notable affiliated experts include:[23]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Form 990" (PDF). Internal Revenue Service. (PDF) from the original on October 1, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  2. ^ Barlow, Rich (July 23, 2019). "Professor Emeritus Andrew Bacevich Cofounds a Think Tank Promoting Democracy, Funded By Ideological Opposites George Soros and Charles Koch". Boston University. from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Team". Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  4. ^ "Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft". Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. from the original on 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2019-07-01. as we near our public launch in November!
  5. ^ Kinzer, Stephen (June 30, 2019). "In an astonishing turn, George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US 'forever war' policy". Boston Globe. from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  6. ^ Embury-Denis, Tom (1 July 2019). "George Soros and Charles Koch to fund new 'anti-war' think tank". The Independent. from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ^ Coleman, Justine (December 3, 2019). "George Soros, Charles Koch foundations help launch pro-peace think tank". The Hill. from the original on February 19, 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  8. ^ "Our Financial Supporters". from the original on 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  9. ^ a b c d e Klion, David (July 29, 2019). . The Nation. Archived from the original on August 3, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Mills, Curt (2019-07-01). "Realism Resurgent: The Rise of the Quincy Institute". The National Interest. from the original on 2020-12-16. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  11. ^ a b Drezner, Daniel W. (2019-07-11). "Charles Koch and George Soros teamed up on a new foreign-policy think tank. I have questions". The Washington Post. from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. ^ a b c "About QI - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft". Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  13. ^ Spinelli, Dan; Friedman, Dan (August 2022). "America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine". Mother Jones. ISSN 0362-8841. from the original on 2022-09-04. Retrieved 2022-09-05. The institute is proudly not progressive; it prefers to call itself "transpartisan." Its experts often align with the anti-militarist worldview shared by many progressive Democrats and libertarians, a coalition that is reflected in the organization's primary funders: George Soros and Charles Koch.
  14. ^ a b c "New US think tank accused of antisemitism". The Jerusalem Post. 2020-01-29. from the original on 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  15. ^ a b c Spinelli, Dan; Friedman, Dan (August 2022). "America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine". Mother Jones. ISSN 0362-8841. from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  16. ^ "The World Doesn't Need a More Restrained America". Bloomberg News. 2022-06-01. from the original on 2022-06-25. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  17. ^ a b Deudney, Daniel; Ikenberry, G. John (2021). "Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism". Survival. 63 (4). International Institute for Strategic Studies: 7–32. doi:10.1080/00396338.2021.1956187. ISSN 0039-6338.
  18. ^ Dolsten, Josefin (9 January 2020). "Republican senator accuses Soros-funded think tank of fostering anti-Semitism". Times of Israel. from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  19. ^ Chotiner, Isaac (January 13, 2020). "Andrew Bacevich on U.S. Foreign-Policy Mistakes". The New Yorker. from the original on 12 December 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  20. ^ Roussinos, Aris (January 15, 2024). "Peace in Ukraine has never seemed further away". UnHerd. Writing for the isolationist Quincy Institute think tank, the strategic analyst Anatol Lieven
  21. ^ Rosen, Armin (April 28, 2021). "Washington's Weirdest Think Tank". Tablet. from the original on April 30, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  22. ^ "'That conversation is over': Jason Greenblatt talks on Khashoggi, Israel and Saudi Arabia". POLITICO. 2022-07-07. from the original on 2023-10-01. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  23. ^ "Experts". Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Retrieved January 2, 2024.

Further reading edit

  • Bender, Bryan (2019-12-02). "George Soros and Charles Koch take on the 'endless wars'". POLITICO. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  • David Klion, "Go Not Abroad in Search of Monsters: The Quincy Institute, a new DC think tank, will fight the Blob at home while advocating restraint overseas", The Nation, vol. 309, no. 3 (August 12 / 19, 2019), pp. 18–21.

External links edit

  • Official website  

January 01, 1970
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The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is an American think tank specializing in U S foreign policy Founded in 2019 the Quincy Institute has been described as advocating realism and restraint in foreign policy The organization is located in Washington D C and is named after former president John Quincy AdamsQuincy Institute for Responsible StatecraftFormation2019 5 years ago 2019 Type501 c 3 organizationTax ID no 84 2285143 1 Board ChairAndrew BacevichWebsitequincyinst wbr org Contents 1 History 2 Purpose 3 Reception 4 Co founders 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory editThe Quincy Institute was co founded by Andrew Bacevich a former U S Army officer who fought in the Vietnam War and later became a professor of history at Boston University 2 Bacevich is currently chairman of the board at the Quincy Institute 3 Initial funding for the group launched in November 2019 4 included half a million dollars each from George Soros Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch s Koch Foundation 5 6 7 Substantial funding has also come from the Ford Foundation the Carnegie Corporation of New York the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy 8 The institute distinguishes itself from many other think tanks in Washington D C by refusing to accept money from foreign governments 9 The think tank is named after U S President John Quincy Adams who as secretary of state said in a speech on July 4 1821 that the U S goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy 9 It has been described as realist and promot ing an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats sanctions and bombing 10 11 David Klion wrote Quincy s founding members say again and again that 9 11 and the Iraq War were turning points in their careers 9 Purpose editThe Quincy Institute states that it is a nonprofit research organization and think tank that hosts scholars participates in debates publishes analysis pieces by journalists and academics and advocates for a less militarized and more cooperative foreign policy 12 According to its statement of purpose it is opposed to the military industrial complex described by President Dwight D Eisenhower in his farewell address 12 Co founder Trita Parsi an Iranian born author and analyst has described the Quincy Institute as transpartisan and according to The Nation has described the need for an alliance of politicians on the left and right who agree on the need for restraint even if they do so for different reasons 9 13 Bacevich said Our purpose is to promote restraint as a central principle of U S foreign policy fewer wars and more effective diplomatic engagement 14 According to The Nation the Quincy Institute founders believe that the existing foreign policy elite is out of step with the American public which is far more skeptical of military adventurism 9 Mother Jones said that the Quincy Institute offers a rare voice of dissent from foreign policy orthodoxy 15 Daniel W Drezner writing in The Washington Post described the institute as a think tank that advocates a sober version of restraint and said that it joined the Cato Institute the Center for the National Interest and New America in the heterodox foreign policy basket 11 Hal Brands writing in Bloomberg News described it as a well funded think tank that is part of the restraint coalition a loose network of analysts advocates and politicians calling for a sharply reduced US role in the world 16 Reception editSome writers have argued that the agenda of the Quincy Institute is in line with the Trump administration s foreign policy on some issues such as negotiating with North Korea but has a different approach from the Trump administration on others such as U S involvement in the war in Yemen 10 17 Writing in Survival the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry criticized the restraints that the Quincy Institute advocates for as misplaced and inadequate Deudney and Ikenberry argue that liberal internationalism would offer a more historically effective basis for institution based restraint than transactional agreements between states supported by the geopolitical restraint school 17 In January 2020 The Jerusalem Post reported that a number of fellows of the institute including Lawrence Wilkerson Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer had been accused of antisemitism for the ways they have criticized the Israel lobby in the United States AIPAC and Israel 14 One such accusation came from Republican U S Senator Tom Cotton describing it as an isolationist blame America First money pit for so called scholars who ve written that American foreign policy could be fixed if only it were rid of the malign influence of Jewish money 18 14 Quincy president Andrew Bacevich described Cotton s claim as absurd 19 Aris Roussinos of UnHerd called it isolationist 20 According to an April 2021 article in Tablet two Quincy Institute fellows have cast doubt on whether the persecution of Uyghurs in China amounts to a genocide 21 In 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine there were two resignations in protest at the institute s dovish response to the conflict non resident fellow Joseph Cirincione of Ploughshares Fund who had raised money for Quincy and board member Paul Eaton a retired senior Army major officer and adviser to Democratic politicians and liberal advocacy groups Cirincione said he fundamentally disagrees with Quincy experts who completely ignore the dangers and the horrors of Russia s invasion and occupation and focus almost exclusively on criticism of the United States NATO and Ukraine Eaton said he resigned because he supports NATO 15 22 Parsi responded by saying that Cirincione s criticisms were not only false but bewildering and were easily disproved by a quick glance at our website 15 Co founders editThe Quincy Institute s co founders include 12 Andrew Bacevich president Eli Clifton senior advisor Suzanne DiMaggio chairman Trita Parsi executive vice president Stephen Wertheim Notable affiliated experts include 23 Neta Crawford Mary L Dudziak Roxane Farmanfarmaian Nils Gilman Greg Grandin William D Hartung Ann Jones author Joshua Landis William M LeoGrande Anatol Lieven Jim Lobe William Luers John Mearsheimer Jeanne Morefield Samuel Moyn Paul R Pillar Aziz Rana Miguel Tinker Salas Steven Simon Michael D Swaine Monica Toft Stephen WaltSee also editDefense PrioritiesReferences edit Form 990 PDF Internal Revenue Service Archived PDF from the original on October 1 2023 Retrieved October 1 2023 Barlow Rich July 23 2019 Professor Emeritus Andrew Bacevich Cofounds a Think Tank Promoting Democracy Funded By Ideological Opposites George Soros and Charles Koch Boston University Archived from the original on July 13 2021 Retrieved June 7 2022 Team Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Retrieved 2024 01 31 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Archived from the original on 2019 07 01 Retrieved 2019 07 01 as we near our public launch in November Kinzer Stephen June 30 2019 In an astonishing turn George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US forever war policy Boston Globe Archived from the original on July 1 2019 Retrieved July 1 2019 Embury Denis Tom 1 July 2019 George Soros and Charles Koch to fund new anti war think tank The Independent Archived from the original on 1 July 2019 Retrieved 1 July 2019 Coleman Justine December 3 2019 George Soros Charles Koch foundations help launch pro peace think tank The Hill Archived from the original on February 19 2020 Retrieved May 23 2020 Our Financial Supporters Archived from the original on 2022 04 19 Retrieved 2022 05 25 a b c d e Klion David July 29 2019 Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War The Nation Archived from the original on August 3 2019 Retrieved August 3 2019 a b Mills Curt 2019 07 01 Realism Resurgent The Rise of the Quincy Institute The National Interest Archived from the original on 2020 12 16 Retrieved 2020 05 23 a b Drezner Daniel W 2019 07 11 Charles Koch and George Soros teamed up on a new foreign policy think tank I have questions The Washington Post Archived from the original on 2021 09 11 Retrieved 2021 07 29 a b c About QI Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Archived from the original on 24 July 2021 Retrieved 28 July 2021 Spinelli Dan Friedman Dan August 2022 America s Top Anti War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine Mother Jones ISSN 0362 8841 Archived from the original on 2022 09 04 Retrieved 2022 09 05 The institute is proudly not progressive it prefers to call itself transpartisan Its experts often align with the anti militarist worldview shared by many progressive Democrats and libertarians a coalition that is reflected in the organization s primary funders George Soros and Charles Koch a b c New US think tank accused of antisemitism The Jerusalem Post 2020 01 29 Archived from the original on 2021 01 01 Retrieved 2021 01 04 a b c Spinelli Dan Friedman Dan August 2022 America s Top Anti War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine Mother Jones ISSN 0362 8841 Archived from the original on 2022 09 05 Retrieved 2022 09 05 The World Doesn t Need a More Restrained America Bloomberg News 2022 06 01 Archived from the original on 2022 06 25 Retrieved 2022 09 05 a b Deudney Daniel Ikenberry G John 2021 Misplaced Restraint The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism Survival 63 4 International Institute for Strategic Studies 7 32 doi 10 1080 00396338 2021 1956187 ISSN 0039 6338 Dolsten Josefin 9 January 2020 Republican senator accuses Soros funded think tank of fostering anti Semitism Times of Israel Archived from the original on 22 February 2021 Retrieved 5 January 2021 Chotiner Isaac January 13 2020 Andrew Bacevich on U S Foreign Policy Mistakes The New Yorker Archived from the original on 12 December 2020 Retrieved 5 January 2021 Roussinos Aris January 15 2024 Peace in Ukraine has never seemed further away UnHerd Writing for the isolationist Quincy Institute think tank the strategic analyst Anatol Lieven Rosen Armin April 28 2021 Washington s Weirdest Think Tank Tablet Archived from the original on April 30 2021 Retrieved May 1 2021 That conversation is over Jason Greenblatt talks on Khashoggi Israel and Saudi Arabia POLITICO 2022 07 07 Archived from the original on 2023 10 01 Retrieved 2022 09 05 Experts Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Retrieved January 2 2024 Further reading editBender Bryan 2019 12 02 George Soros and Charles Koch take on the endless wars POLITICO Retrieved 2021 01 04 David Klion Go Not Abroad in Search of Monsters The Quincy Institute a new DC think tank will fight the Blob at home while advocating restraint overseas The Nation vol 309 no 3 August 12 19 2019 pp 18 21 External links editOfficial website nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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