Meet Scott McCann, the Society’s Newest Team Member
What are you most excited about in your new role?I am most excited about the opportunity to connect restrainers from various backgrounds and roles with each other in the Strategic Leader Fellowship. Additionally, I look forward to getting to know the talented folks thinking about and working towards a restraint-oriented foreign policy strategy. What books […]
2022 JQA Society Year in Review

Dear Friends and Supporters of the John Quincy Adams Society, As we approach the beginning of a new year, we would like to thank all our friends and supporters. Our team is grateful for your generous ongoing support, and we hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Moving into 2023 we are committed at the […]
Meet Michael Culp, the Society’s Newest Team Member
What are you most excited about in your new role?I’m excited about getting the opportunity to help connect people to the Society’s ideas, professional opportunities, expanding its operations, bringing the Society’s message in foreign policy to new audiences, and utilizing our existing audience more effectively. What books on U.S. foreign policy have most influenced your […]
Meet A. J. Manuzzi, the Society’s Newest Team Member
What are you most excited about in your new role? I am most excited to work with our campus chapter network in the South to facilitate intellectual and professional development among talented young minds in the foreign policy space. Furthermore, I look forward to actively taking part in the most important foreign policy discussions facing […]
Our Fall 2022 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 […]
An Alternative to Maximum Pressure in Venezuela (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By A.J. Manuzzi, Spring 2022 Marcellus Policy Fellow The continuity of the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” policy towards Venezuela into the Biden Administration has failed to generate meaningful political change while prolonging and exacerbating humanitarian suffering and sabotaging intra-Venezuelan negotiations. The current policy, characterized by the pursuit of regime change through crushing economic sanctions, clashes […]
Charting a New Path Forward for the US-NATO Relationship (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Jordan King, Spring 2022 Marcellus Policy Fellow The United States no longer needs to act as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) primary security guarantor. After World War II, the United States recognized a unique opportunity to rebuild the economies of Western Europe, establish itself as a hegemonic power on the continent, and build […]
Deadly Garage Sales: Using the Excess Defense Articles Program Strategically (Marcellus Policy Analysis
By Andrew Jarocki, Spring 2022 Marcellus Policy Fellow The Excess Defense Articles (EDA) program is the Department of Defense’s mechanism for getting rid of unneeded military equipment by providing it to other nations on a grant or sale basis. EDA transfers can have both financial and strategic benefits for the United States. However, this report […]
Sanctions and Strategic Autonomy: Course Correcting the US-India Partnership (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By James Himberger, Spring 2022 Marcellus Policy Fellow China’s economic, political, and military ascent in the 21st century has triggered an unprecedented convergence of Indian and American interests. Since the George W. Bush administration, each American president has sought to maintain and expand its partnership with New Delhi. Members of Congress from both parties are […]
A New Balancing Act: Rejecting War & Protecting Taiwan (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Matthew Gallagher, Spring 2022 Marcellus Policy Fellow If maintaining peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region — and if preserving the economic autonomy, political freedom, and human rights of Taiwan — is in the national interest, then U.S. policy must adapt to changing security conditions. The U.S. should commit to military non-intervention if the […]