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  • Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, wait to board a C-17 cargo plane for an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise on Saturday, July 16, 2016, on Fort Bragg. Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, are undertaking a Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana this week. More than 700, jumped into the training area as part of an airborne operation early Sunday morning.

    QI Briefs

    Revitalizing the Transatlantic Alliance: Principles for a Balanced NATO 

    This brief lays out a sustainable path forward through a comprehensive reset of the transatlantic relationship, both recommending a new American role in NATO and articulating a new set of principles for a leaner, more focused alliance centered on European–led territorial defense and regional stability.

    Mark Episkopos
    Posted on June 30, 2026

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the Quincy Institute?


The Quincy Institute promotes ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war, toward military restraint and diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. We are building a world where peace is the norm and war is the exception.

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Quincy Spotlight

Policy Notes

An Opening for a New US–China Economic Relationship 

Jake Werner
Posted on May 11, 2026
Collection

The Iran War

Posted on September 24, 2026
QI Briefs

Revitalizing the Transatlantic Alliance: Principles for a Balanced NATO 

Mark Episkopos
Posted on June 30, 2026
Manual

Preventing and Managing a US-China Crisis

Michael D. Swaine
Posted on September 1, 2026
QI Briefs

The Wrong Race: The US, China, and AI Competition

Alvin Wang Graylin
Posted on September 18, 2026
QI Briefs

From Strategic Patience to Persistent Counter-Escalation: Iran’s Emerging Theory of Deterrence

Sina Toossi
Posted on September 17, 2026
All Reports & Briefs

Research at the Quincy Institute


As a research institution, we expose the dangerous consequences of an overly militarized American foreign policy and present an alternative approach, centered on diplomacy and military restraint.

Our Research

Our cutting-edge research spans across six geographic and thematic teams and forms the basis for our advocacy and outreach.

Democratizing Foreign Policy

U.S. foreign policy should serve the interests of the American people and not those of special interests.

East Asia

We develop concepts and pathways for the U.S. to pursue a stable balance of power in the region.

Eurasia

U.S. policies that promote international peace and cooperation in Europe and Eurasia will avoid costly new U.S. military commitments.

Global South

The rise of power and agency of the Global South requires a new approach by the United States.

Grand Strategy

For decades, the United States’ pursuit of military dominance across the globe has delivered neither peace nor strength.

Middle East

We work to avoid new military entanglements in the Middle East, the center of American military overreach for decades.

Events & Webinars

The Quincy Institute hosts frequent debates, panel discussions, book talks, and other events virtually and in person that challenge the status quo, amplify underrepresented perspectives, and propose bold solutions. These are the conversations you will find beyond cable news or on the front pages of the newspaper.

  • Book Talk | 1873—The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World 
    Book Talk
    Sep 30, 2026 11:30AM EDT

    Book Talk | 1873—The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World 

    What can the turmoil of the first age of globalization tell us about the present?

    Liaquat Ahamed and
    Karthik Sankaran
  • President Xi Goes to Washington: Building Stability or Merely Postponing Conflict?
    Webinar
    Sep 22, 2026 12:00PM EDT

    President Xi Goes to Washington: Building Stability or Merely Postponing Conflict?

    A preview of the Trump-Xi summit.

    Jake Werner,
    Alvin Wang Graylin,
    Paul Heer and
    Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
  • The German State Elections and the Rise of AfD
    Webinar
    Sep 21, 2026 12:00PM EDT

    The German State Elections and the Rise of AfD

    What does AfD’s ascendance mean for Germany’s foreign policy?

    Wolfgang Streeck,
    Thomas Fasbender,
    Molly O'Neal and
    Anatol Lieven
All Events and Webinars

Experts in the Media

Quincy Institute experts are frequently called upon to offer their analysis on breaking foreign policy news. Our trusted perspective on restraint in foreign policy is a critical contribution to the national conversation.

  • Iran has suggested a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in 7 days
    Experts in the Media

    Iran has suggested a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in 7 days

    Trita Parsi

    Featured in PBS Newshour

    September 25, 2026
  • Seven Months Into Iran War
    Experts in the Media

    Seven Months Into Iran War

    Featured on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes

    Trita Parsi
    September 24, 2026
  • Israel Is Trying to Shape What Chatbots Say. We Tested Six.
    Experts in the Media

    Israel Is Trying to Shape What Chatbots Say. We Tested Six.

    Featured in Wired

    Nick Cleveland-Stout
    September 24, 2026
All Experts in the Media

Other Key Topics

These are collections on timely topics of particular current interest.

Conflict Resolution Diplomacy Economic Statecraft International Conflict International Relations Military Industrial Complex National Security Strategy U.S.-China Relations U.S.-Russia Relations U.S. Hegemony U.S. Militarism U.S. Military

Help us achieve a world where peace is the norm and war the exception.

The Quincy Institute is a transpartisan “action tank” and communications project, established to challenge the decades-long obsession of U.S. foreign policy decision makers with global military dominance and war.

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