Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

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. Bacevich is the emeritus board chair at the Quincy Institute and Stephen B. Heintz is the current board chair. Initial funding for the group, launched in November 2019, included half a million dollars each from George Soros' Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch's Koch Foundation. 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. The institute distinguishes itself from many other think tanks in Washington, D.C. by refusing to accept money from foreign governments. 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." David Klion wrote: "Quincy's founding members say again and again that 9/11 and the Iraq War were turning points in their careers." ==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". 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." 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". 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". Jay Solomon, writing in The Free Press, described it as "neo-isolationist". 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. ==Reception==

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. 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." Quincy president Andrew Bacevich described Cotton's claim as absurd. 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. 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". 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." ==Personnel==

The Quincy Institute's co-founders include: • Andrew Bacevich, president • Eli Clifton, senior advisor • Suzanne DiMaggio, chairman • Trita Parsi, executive vice president • Stephen Wertheim Notable affiliated scholars include: ==See also==