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Responsible Statecraft

U.S. foreign-policy restraint (anti-interventionist, cross-ideological left/right)

Owned byPublished by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit think tank. It has no commercial owner.
FundingPhilanthropic grants and donations to the Quincy Institute. Early funding included about $500,000 each from George Soros's Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch's Koch Foundation. Other listed donors include the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Stand Together (Koch family). The institute says it takes no money from foreign governments. The magazine runs no paid ads or paywall.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

Responsible Statecraft was launched in 2019 as the publication of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which was itself founded in November 2019. The institute's founders included Trita Parsi, Andrew Bacevich, Stephen Wertheim and Suzanne DiMaggio. It was named for John Quincy Adams's warning against going abroad 'in search of monsters to destroy.' The outlet publishes staff reporting, analysis and op-eds from academics, former officials and military veterans. Its writers argue against the 'forever wars', large defense budgets, sanctions, and U.S. military commitments in the Middle East, Ukraine and Asia. The institute's funding mix has drawn criticism from both sides. Some on the right stress the Soros money, while some on the left and among hawks note Koch-linked support and say the group's views align with Russia or Iran. Critics also point to its stance on Iran and Russia and to Parsi's past leadership of the National Iranian American Council. Supporters call it a rare bipartisan forum for restraint. In Trump's second term, it has criticized strikes and military buildups, including those involving Iran, while giving credit where Trump has leaned toward negotiation or drawdowns.

Sources

  1. Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Wikipedia)
  2. Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft - InfluenceWatch
  3. Quincy Institute - SourceWatch
  4. Responsible Statecraft Media Bias - AllSides
  5. Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft - Media Bias/Fact Check
  6. NewsBusters: Soros-Funded Quincy Institute Amplified Claim Iran's 'Gaming' Trump

Profile compiled 2026-10-18; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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