Spending Towards Strategy: Restructuring the U.S. Navy to Support Offshore Balancing (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Tyler Koteskey, Fall 2020 Marcellus Policy Fellow America is entering a period where greater economic constraints will force overdue reevaluations of its grand strategy and security priorities. As our nation contends with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the credibility of our current commitments abroad is increasingly under strain. America’s grand strategy should reflect […]
Avoiding War on the Waters: Why U.S. Naval Strategy Towards Iran Must Change (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Scott Strgacich, Fall 2020 Marcellus Policy Fellow The United States has maintained a naval force posture in the Persian Gulf that has not significantly changed over at least the past two decades despite the seismic changes the region has experienced in that same span of time. Advocates of this posture claim the regular deployment […]
Moral Hazard: the United States and Saudi Arabia (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Fiona Harrigan, Fall 2020 Marcellus Policy Fellow Over the course of President Donald Trump’s tenure, the United States and Saudi Arabia have experienced an unprecedented level of partnership. It has seemingly also been Saudi Arabia’s most controversial era on the world stage, with its continued military campaigns in the Yemeni Civil War, involvement in […]
Upcoming Event – Korea: America’s Forgotten Forever War
Wednesday, September 30, 20207:00 PM ET on ZoomRegister here The U.S. relationships with North Korea and South Korea have been in and out of the headlines. Looking North, Washington has attempted both a maximum pressure strategy and high-level diplomacy, including meetings between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. There has been talk of signing a peace […]
Our Fall 2020 Marcellus Policy Fellows
The Marcellus Policy Fellowship is the John Quincy Adams Society’s most selective program, providing promising foreign policy minds an early-career opportunity to produce independent, impact-minded research under expert guidance. Fellows learn about U.S. foreign policy from top scholars and path-breaking thinkers, refining their own ideas into a high-quality policy paper and supporting materials. The Society […]
Event: Oil, the Persian Gulf, and U.S. Security
Wednesday, August 5, 2020; 7pm ET on Zoom. Register here. […]
Introducing the winners of the Society’s 2020 student foreign policy essay contest
The John Quincy Adams Society is pleased to announce the winners of our fourth annual foreign policy essay contest with The National Interest. This year’s contest offered students a choice of two prompts, each ripped from the headlines. First, what vital interests might the United States have in the Middle East, and what role might […]
Meet Ryan Nuckles, the Society’s Newest Team Member
We chatted with Ryan Nuckles, who just joined us here at the John Quincy Adams Society’s headquarters. Ryan will work with chapters in the Society’s northern region. What’s your background with the John Quincy Adams Society? I was involved with the University of Alabama’s John Quincy Adams Society chapter since my freshman year in 2016 […]
Listen to the Podcast Episode Taped at Our Conference
If you missed our 2019 Student Leadership Conference, you can still catch one of its highlights: a live taping of the Cato foreign policy podcast Power Problems. Host Emma Ashford spoke with New America’s Heather Hurlburt about her recent Lawfare article “Making Sense of the Grand Strategy Debate.” The two dug into the growing discussion […]
The National Interest on the JQA Society’s Work Building a New Generation of Leaders
Branding the John Quincy Adams Society a cross-partisan “Federalist Society for Foreign Policy,” The National Interest‘s Curt Mills writes, JQAS hopes to churn out a new generation of primacy-skeptic foreign policy professionals, including journalists. So, a generation hence, when a president runs and wins on bemoaning American misadventure abroad, she’ll have more than the usual […]