Responsible Statecraft
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Responsible Statecraft is a think tank / policy group source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Center.
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We use multiple methods to analyze sources. Learn how we rate media bias.Responsible Statecraft Rated as Center in October 2024 Independent Review
In October 2024, an AllSides team member conducted an Independent Review of Responsible Statecraft and assigned an initial Media Bias Rating of Center.
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Additional Information
About Responsible Statecraft
Responsible Statecraft, formally known as the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is a Washington D.C. based think tank specializing in foreign policy and affairs. It is named after the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams.
Per the organization's website [retrieved 17 Oct. 2024], it describes itself as "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."
Per Wikipedia [retrieved 17 Oct. 2024], "The Quincy Institute was co-founded by Andrew Bacevich, a former US Army officer who fought in the Vietnam War and later became a professor of history at Boston University." Bacevich also serves as the chairman of the organization's board.
Responsible Statecraft Ownership and Funding
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Per Wikipedia [retrieved 17 Oct. 2024], "Initial funding for the group, launched in November 2019, included half a million dollars each from George Soros' Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch's Koch Foundation. Substantial funding has also come from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy."
According to an article published by The Nation in July 2019, the Quincy Institute stated an aim to differentiate itself from other think tanks by refusing to accept funding from foreign governments.