Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is a U.S. think tank founded in 2019 and located in Washington, D.C., named after former U.S. president John Quincy Adams. It has been described as "realist" and advocating for "restraint" in U.S. foreign policy. History. Initial funding for the group, launched in November 2019, included half a million dollars each from the Open Society Foundations (George Soros) and the Koch Foundation (Charles Koch). 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". 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". David Klion wrote: "Quincy's founding members say again and again that 9/11 and the Iraq War were turning points in their careers". Supporters and critics of the Quincy Institute have described it as having significant agreements with the foreign policy of the Trump administration. Criticism. 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". They wrote that the Quincy Institute is unaware of great power competition, and how it has changed since the early 2000s post-Cold War moment. 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. In January 2020, Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton accused the Quincy Institute of antisemitism, describing the Institute 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." Quincy president Andrew Bacevich described Cotton's claim as "absurd". "The Jerusalem Post" wrote that a number of fellows of the Institute, including Lawrence Wilkerson, Stephen Walt, and John Mearsheimer, had criticised the Israel lobby in the United States, AIPAC and Israel. Eugene Kontorovich has said many Quincy scholars singled out Jews and Israel for "particular demonization". According to an April 2021 "Tablet" article, Quincy Institute fellows have taken public positions denying the Uyghur genocide. Co-founders. According to the Quincy Institute, its co -founding leaders include: