Andrew Bacevich Receives Fifth Annual Quincy Award for Responsible Statecraft
Washington, DC — The Quincy Institute has named Andrew Bacevich as this year’s recipient of the Quincy Award for Responsible Statecraft. The purpose of this annual award is to honor someone who has significantly advanced QI’s mission of moving the United States away from a foreign policy of domination and war.
The citation on the 5th annual award reads, “ For his national service: Soldier. Scholar. Mentor. Founder. Voice of conscience.”
“No one has done more to advance the work of ending forever wars and frivolous foreign entanglements than Andrew Bacevich. No one has done it with such plain-spoken eloquence, such grounded experience and knowledge, and with such perseverance, creativity, and hopeless optimism,” said Quincy Institute CEO Lora Lumpe.
A historian by training, Andrew Bacevich taught for many years at West Point, Johns Hopkins University, and, most recently, Boston University, where he served as the director of its Center for International Relations from 1998 to 2005. Prior to teaching, he served as a career officer in the U.S. Army for more than 20 years, retiring with the rank of colonel.
Andrew has written 14 books, the latest of which is his first work of fiction. Through his prolific writing, he emerged as a prominent critic of the Iraq War and American militarism around the world, challenging the use of force as a means of advancing U.S. interests and bringing about peace in the world.
He also co-founded the Quincy Institute and serves on its board. While it may seem self-referential, the leadership and other members of the board agreed that his contributions to advancing the organization’s mission are unmatched.
“Our organization simply would not exist without Andrew’s visionary leadership, bringing to bear a first of its kind, transpartisan organization squarely committed to military restraint and diplomacy. In commemorating our five year mark as an organization, there is no one more deserving of the Quincy award than Andrew,” said Trita Parsi, founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute.
Given annually since 2019, the Quincy Award for Responsible Statecraft is conferred to Members of Congress, diplomats, leaders of movements or organizations, artists, journalists, philanthropists, or others who effectively promote ideas that advance QI’s work to build a world where peace is the norm and war the exception. In December 2023, the award was given to Debora Cahn, creator and showrunner of Netflix’s The Diplomat, in recognition of the show’s impact in informing a broad public about the hard and essential work of diplomacy.
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