Thomas J. Wright (American scholar)

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Thomas J. Wright
NationalityAmerican
Education University College Dublin (BA, MA), University of Cambridge (M.Phil), Georgetown University (PhD)
OccupationSenior U.S. security official
Employer United States National Security Council

Thomas J. Wright is an American international relations scholar currently serving as Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the United States National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He was part of a team instrumental in putting together the 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy, released in October 2022. [6]

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Education

Wright holds a BA in history (1996) and a MA in comparative politics (1997) from University College Dublin, a M.Phil. from University of Cambridge (1999), and a PhD in government (international relations) from Georgetown University (2007). [7] His thesis is titled "Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S. Soviet Relations 1943–1950". [8]

Career

Prior to joining the NSC, Wright was a senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. [1] [9]

Between 2008 and 2011, he was executive director of studies at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs. [7]

Wright has served as a predoctoral fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center and a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He has also taught at the University of Chicago's Harris School for Public Policy. [7]

Views on China and technology

In a December 2021 Brookings written exchange on technology's role in US-China strategic competition, Wright wrote: "Beijing is likely to continue to use its enormous economic power to build asymmetrical ties to companies and countries that serve its interests but it will struggle to provide an alternative to the U.S. model of international cooperation on technology. It would have more levers it could pull to slow down a formal alliance but it will find it difficult to undermine a more diffused approach." [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles". Brookings. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  2. ↑ Gramer, Jack Detsch, Robbie (December 18, 2023). "Biden Eyes Adding Top Foreign-Policy Strategist". Foreign Policy. Retrieved December 18, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Carden, James (May 3, 2022). "The company men behind Biden's foreign policy 'Blob'". Asia Times. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  4. ↑ "President Biden Announces Key Appointments to Boards and Commissions". The White House. March 10, 2023. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Biden Political Appointee Tracker". The Washington Post . Retrieved December 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Biden-Harris Administration's National Security Strategy". The White House. October 13, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 "Thomas J. Wright" (PDF). Brookings Institution . April 29, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
  8. ↑ Wright, Thomas J. (2007). Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S-Soviet Relations, 1943–1950. Georgetown University.
  9. ↑ "Thomas Wright". Brookings. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  10. ↑ "U.S.-China technology competition". Brookings. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  11. ↑ "All Measures Short of War". Yale University Press. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  12. ↑ Wright, Thomas (August 24, 2021). "The Center Cannot Hold". Foreign Affairs. No. September/October 2021. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  13. ↑ Campbell, Thomas Wright, Kurt M. (April 13, 2020). "If Biden Wins, He'll Have to Put the World Back Together". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 18, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ Wright, Thomas (February 10, 2020). "The Folly of Retrenchment". Foreign Affairs. No. March/April 2020. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  15. ↑ Wright, Thomas (February 19, 2019). "The Moment the Transatlantic Charade Ended". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  16. ↑ Wright, Thomas (January 18, 2019). "Trump's Foreign Policy Is No Longer Unpredictable". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  17. ↑ Wright, Thomas (December 21, 2018). "Trump, Unchecked". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  18. ↑ Wright, Thomas (September 26, 2018). "Trump's Mystifying Victory Lap at the UN". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  19. ↑ Gordon, David; Wright, Thomas (June 30, 2015). "No Exit". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  20. ↑ Gordon, David; Wright, Thomas (March 26, 2015). "Syriza Stumbles". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  21. ↑ Wright, Thomas (August 7, 2012). "Outlaw of the Sea". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved December 18, 2023.
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