Thomas Wright is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is the author, with Colin Kahl, of “Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order,” which was published by St Martin’s Press in 2021. His first book, “All Measures Short of War: The Contest For the 21st Century and the Future of American Power,” was published by Yale University Press in 2017. Wright also works on U.S. foreign policy, great power competition, the European Union, Brexit, and economic interdependence.
Wright has a doctorate from Georgetown University, a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s and master’s from University College Dublin. He has also held a pre-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. He was previously executive director of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy.
- Contact
- 202.797.6072 — Office
- Topics
- Brexit
- Europe
- European Union
- National Security
- Programs
- Foreign Policy
- Centers
- Center on the United States and Europe
- Projects
- Brookings-Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative
- Project on International Order and Strategy
- Additional Expertise Areas
- U.S. national security
- International order
- U.S. alliances
- Europe
- Diplomacy
- Past Positions
- Executive Director of Studies, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Lecturer, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
- Senior Researcher, Princeton Project on National Security
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Education
- Ph.D., Georgetown University
- M.Phil., University of Cambridge
- B.A. and M.A., University College Dublin
