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And when it comes to America’s role in the world – how we should conduct our foreign policy – there is just one party in Washington – the war party.
Both parties seem genuinely committed to maintaining America’s military domination of the world. It’s a gospel of group think.
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft doesn’t operate within a partisan frame because support for the U.S. policing the world, as ineffective as the US has proved to be in that role, is not limited to either the Democratic or Republican party.
So our message – that Americans can be more prosperous and secure at home and more at peace in the world with a less militaristic foreign policy – is actually welcome by ordinary Americans across the political spectrum.
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April 30th is an important date in American politics. This is the day 100 for the American President in the White House, and all attention will be on the reports of his achievements and failures. But nothing can be more critical than Peace…
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Russia’s invasion has made ordinarily outspoken critics of antisemitism wary of criticizing Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
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Richard Sakwa has for many years been one of the most distinguished and insightful observers of relations between the West and Russia, and one of the leading critics of Western policy. In this talk with Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, Sakwa discusses his book, The Culture of the Second Cold War (Anthem 2025). The book examines the cultural-political trends and inheritances that underlie the new version of a struggle that we thought we had put behind us in 1989. Sakwa describes both the continuities from the first Cold War and the ways in which new technologies have reshaped strategies and attitudes.
