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The '''Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft''' is an American foreign-policy think tank which has been described as advocating realism and restraint in foreign policy.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., it is named after the sixth president of the United States (1825–29), John Quincy Adams.

The Institute's CEO is Lora Lumpe. Its executive vice president is Trita Parsi.

==History== The Quincy Institute was co-founded by Trita Parsi, Stephen Wertheim, Eli Clifton, Suzanne DiMaggio, and Andrew Bacevich, a former U.S. Army officer who fought in the Vietnam War and later became a professor of history at Boston University.<ref>{{cite web|last=Barlow|first=Rich|date=July 23, 2019|title=Professor Emeritus Andrew Bacevich Cofounds a Think Tank Promoting Democracy, Funded By Ideological Opposites George Soros and Charles Koch|url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/professor-emeritus-andrew-bacevich-cofounds-a-think-tank-promoting-democracy-funded-by-ideological-opposites-george-soros-and-charles-koch/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713020746/https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/professor-emeritus-andrew-bacevich-cofounds-a-think-tank-promoting-democracy-funded-by-ideological-opposites-george-soros-and-charles-koch/|archive-date=July 13, 2021|access-date=June 7, 2022|work=Boston University}}</ref> Bacevich is the Quincy Institute's emeritus board chair; the current board chair is Stephen B. Heintz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Team|url=https://quincyinst.org/about/team/|access-date=2024-01-31|website=Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft|language=en-US|archive-date=2024-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530005357/https://quincyinst.org/about/team/#staff|url-status=live}}</ref>

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 United States "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."<ref name="nation_2019-07-29" /> 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."<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Realism Resurgent: The Rise of the Quincy Institute|url=https://nationalinterest.org/feature/realism-resurgent-rise-quincy-institute-65116|last=Mills|first=Curt|date=2019-07-01|website=The National Interest|language=en|access-date=2020-05-23|archive-date=2020-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216055445/https://nationalinterest.org/feature/realism-resurgent-rise-quincy-institute-65116|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> ''The Nation'' magazine noted that "Quincy's founding members say again and again that 9/11 and the Iraq War were turning points in their careers."<ref name="nation_2019-07-29" />

Initial funding for the group, launched in November 2019,<ref>{{cite web|title=Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft|website=Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft|url=https://quincyinst.org/|quote=as we near our public launch in November!|access-date=2019-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701185024/https://quincyinst.org/|archive-date=2019-07-01|url-status=live}}</ref> included half a million dollars each from George Soros' Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch's Koch Foundation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kinzer|first=Stephen|date=June 30, 2019|title=In an astonishing turn, George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US 'forever war' policy|newspaper=Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/06/30/soros-and-koch-brothers-team-end-forever-war-policy/WhyENwjhG0vfo9Um6Zl0JO/story.html|url-status=live|access-date=July 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701175403/https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/06/30/soros-and-koch-brothers-team-end-forever-war-policy/WhyENwjhG0vfo9Um6Zl0JO/story.html|archive-date=July 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Embury-Denis|first=Tom|date=1 July 2019|title=George Soros and Charles Koch to fund new 'anti-war' think tank|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-soros-charles-koch-quincy-institute-think-tank-anti-war-a8982216.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701212157/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-soros-charles-koch-quincy-institute-think-tank-anti-war-a8982216.html|archive-date=1 July 2019|access-date=1 July 2019|work=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Coleman|first=Justine|date=December 3, 2019|title=George Soros, Charles Koch foundations help launch pro-peace think tank|work=The Hill|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/472861-george-soros-charles-koch-foundations-help-launch-pro-peace|url-status=live|access-date=May 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219184448/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/472861-george-soros-charles-koch-foundations-help-launch-pro-peace|archive-date=February 19, 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://quincyinst.org/our-financial-supporters/|title=Our Financial Supporters|access-date=2022-05-25|archive-date=2022-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419174027/https://quincyinst.org/our-financial-supporters/|url-status=live}}</ref> The institute distinguishes itself from many other think tanks in Washington, D.C. by refusing to accept money from foreign governments.<ref name="nation_2019-07-29">{{cite news|last=Klion|first=David|date=July 29, 2019|title=Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War?|newspaper=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/quincy-institute-responsible-statecraft-think-tank/|url-status=dead|access-date=August 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803014739/https://www.thenation.com/article/quincy-institute-responsible-statecraft-think-tank/|archive-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref>

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".<ref name="MJ-Quincy"/><ref name="POLITICO 2022">{{cite web|date=2022-07-07|title='That conversation is over': Jason Greenblatt talks on Khashoggi, Israel and Saudi Arabia|url=https://politi.co/3ynC2F1|access-date=2022-09-05|website=POLITICO|archive-date=2023-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001210417/https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/07/07/that-conversation-is-over-jason-greenblatt-talks-on-khashoggi-israel-and-saudi-arabia-00044313|url-status=live}}</ref> 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."<ref name="MJ-Quincy" />

In 2024, the Quincy Institute was one of several organizations that opposed the reauthorization of the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-10 |title=Letter: In Opposition of the Reauthorization of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party |url=https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/publication/letter-opposition-reauthorization-house-select-committee-chinese-communist-party |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=Asian Americans Advancing Justice |language=en |archive-date=2024-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213125246/https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/publication/letter-opposition-reauthorization-house-select-committee-chinese-communist-party |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Purpose== 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".<ref name="quin_Abou" /> According to its statement of purpose, it is opposed to the military-industrial complex described by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address.<ref name="quin_Abou" />

Co-founder Trita Parsi 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".<ref name="nation_2019-07-29" /><ref name="MJ-Quincy-2">{{cite journal|last1=Spinelli|first1=Dan|last2=Friedman|first2=Dan|date=August 2022|title=America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/quincy-institute-cirincione-eaton-resignations-nato-ukraine/|journal=Mother Jones|issn=0362-8841|quote=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.|accessdate=2022-09-05|archive-date=2022-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904173947/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/quincy-institute-cirincione-eaton-resignations-nato-ukraine/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Bacevich, the purpose of the institute is to "promote restraint as a central principle of US foreign policy — fewer wars and more effective diplomatic engagement."<ref name="The Jerusalem Post"/>

==Reception== 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".<ref name="nation_2019-07-29" /> ''Mother Jones'' said that the Quincy Institute offers "a rare voice of dissent from foreign policy orthodoxy."<ref name="MJ-Quincy">{{cite journal|last1=Spinelli|first1=Dan|last2=Friedman|first2=Dan|date=August 2022|title=America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/quincy-institute-cirincione-eaton-resignations-nato-ukraine/|journal=Mother Jones|issn=0362-8841|access-date=2022-09-05|archive-date=2022-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905100214/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/quincy-institute-cirincione-eaton-resignations-nato-ukraine/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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".<ref name=":2">{{cite news|last=Drezner|first=Daniel W.|date=2019-07-11|title=Charles Koch and George Soros teamed up on a new foreign-policy think tank. I have questions.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/11/some-questions-about-quincy-institute/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911135117/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/11/some-questions-about-quincy-institute/|archive-date=2021-09-11|access-date=2021-07-29|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

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".<ref name="Bloomberg 2022">{{cite web|date=2022-06-01|title=The World Doesn't Need a More Restrained America|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-01/the-world-doesn-t-need-a-more-restrained-america|access-date=2022-09-05|website=Bloomberg News|archive-date=2022-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625055718/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-01/the-world-doesn-t-need-a-more-restrained-america|url-status=live}}</ref>

Some writers have argued that the agenda of the 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 US involvement in the war in Yemen.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

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.<ref name=":1">{{cite journal|last1=Deudney|first1=Daniel|last2=Ikenberry|first2=G. John|date=2021|title=Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism|journal=Survival|publisher=International Institute for Strategic Studies|volume=63|issue=4|pages=7–32|doi=10.1080/00396338.2021.1956187|issn=0039-6338|doi-access=free}}</ref>

In January 2020, Republican US senator Tom Cotton accused the institute of antisemitism, calling it 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."<ref name="time_Repu">{{cite web|title=Republican senator accuses Soros-funded think tank of fostering anti-Semitism|last=Dolsten|first=Josefin|work=Times of Israel|date=9 January 2020|access-date=5 January 2021|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/republican-accuses-soros-funded-think-tank-of-fostering-anti-semitism/|archive-date=22 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222200758/https://www.timesofisrael.com/republican-accuses-soros-funded-think-tank-of-fostering-anti-semitism/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The Jerusalem Post">{{cite web|title=New US think tank accused of antisemitism|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=2020-01-29|url=https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/new-us-think-tank-accused-of-antisemitism-615750|access-date=2021-01-04|archive-date=2021-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101030516/https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/new-us-think-tank-accused-of-antisemitism-615750|url-status=live}}</ref> Quincy president Andrew Bacevich described Cotton's claim as absurd.<ref name="newy_Andr">{{cite web|title=Andrew Bacevich on U.S. Foreign-Policy Mistakes|last=Chotiner|first=Isaac|magazine=The New Yorker|date=January 13, 2020|access-date=5 January 2021|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/andrew-bacevich-on-foreign-policy-mistakes|archive-date=12 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212142404/https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/andrew-bacevich-on-foreign-policy-mistakes|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Jerusalem Post'' has also described many of its fellows as controversial: Lawrence Wilkerson for his views on what he called the "Jewish lobby" and Chas Freeman for what the Jerusalem Post describes as "controversial" statements about the Israel lobby and calling American Jews a "fifth column" for Israel.<ref name="The Jerusalem Post" />

According to an April 2021 article in the conservative Jewish online magazine ''Tablet'', two Quincy Institute's non-resident fellows rejected the argument that the persecution of Uyghurs in China amounts to a genocide.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosen|first=Armin|date=April 28, 2021|title=Washington's Weirdest Think Tank|work=Tablet|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/quincy-trita-parsi-soros-koch-armin-rosen|access-date=May 1, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430150407/https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/quincy-trita-parsi-soros-koch-armin-rosen|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personnel== The Quincy Institute's co-founders include:<ref name="quin_Abou">{{cite web|title=About QI - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft|work=Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft|access-date=28 July 2021|url=https://quincyinst.org/about/|archive-date=24 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724200303/https://quincyinst.org/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> * Andrew Bacevich, president * Eli Clifton, senior advisor * Suzanne DiMaggio, chairman * Trita Parsi, executive vice president * Stephen Wertheim

Notable affiliated scholars include:<ref>{{cite web|title=Experts|url=https://quincyinst.org/experts/|website=Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft|access-date=January 2, 2024|archive-date=April 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419034051/https://quincyinst.org/experts/|url-status=live}}</ref> {{columns-list|colwidth=15em| * Neta Crawford * Mary L. Dudziak * Roxane Farmanfarmaian * Nils Gilman * Greg Grandin * William D. Hartung * Ann Jones * 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 * Katrina vanden Heuvel * Stephen Walt }}

=== Media appearances === Many of the scholars affiliated with the institute have made multiple appearances on [https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/about-us/ ''Background Briefing''], a daily public affairs program hosted by journalist Ian Masters which is largely focused on U.S. foreign policy and national security.

==See also== * Defense Priorities

==References== {{reflist}}

==Further reading== * {{cite web |last=Bender |first=Bryan |title=George Soros and Charles Koch take on the 'endless wars' |website=POLITICO |date=2019-12-02 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/02/george-soros-and-charles-koch-take-on-the-endless-wars-074737 |access-date=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. * {{cite web |last1=Parmar |first1=Inderjeet |title=Washington’s newest thinktank is fomenting a revolution in US foreign affairs – and a retreat from interventionism |url=https://theconversation.com/washingtons-newest-thinktank-is-fomenting-a-revolution-in-us-foreign-affairs-and-a-retreat-from-interventionism-132214 |website=The Conversation |access-date=29 January 2025 |date=28 February 2020}}

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