Thomas J. Wright

Thomas J. Wright is an Irish/American international relations scholar who served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the United States National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration. He was part of a team instrumental in putting together the 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy, released in October 2022.

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). His thesis is titled Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S. Soviet Relations 1943–1950. At University College Dublin, he was the Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society for the 1998-9 Session.

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.

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

Publications

Books All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power, Yale University Press, May 23, 2017

Articles