| Executive Director, Studies |
Thomas Wright is executive director of studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He also lectures in U.S. national security policy at the Harris School for Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Previously, Wright served as a senior researcher for the “Princeton Project on National Security,” a multi-year bipartisan project of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and was the principal drafter of the final report titled Forging a World of Liberty Under Law. He earned his doctorate from Georgetown University in 2007 and was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. His area of expertise is international relations with a special focus on Europe, multilateralism, and U.S. foreign policy. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Washington Quarterly, Survival, Prospect Magazine, The Washington Post, and a number of international newspapers and media outlets. At the Council, he is currently directing projects on the transatlantic relationship, soft power in Asia, public opinion and American foreign policy, amongst others.
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Recent Publications:
- Thomas Wright, “Review Essay” (of Books on the Relative Decline of American Power), Orbis, Summer 2010, pp 479-488
- Thomas Wright, “Strategic Engagement’s Track Record”, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3, July 2010, pp 35-60
- Thomas Wright and David Shorr, “The G-20 and Global Governance: An Exchange,” Survival, Vol. 52, No. 2, March/ April 2010, pp 181-198
- Thomas Wright, "Learning the Right Lessons from the 1940s,” in Daniel Drezner ed., Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy, Washington DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 125-136
- "Implications of the Financial Crisis for Soft Power in East Asia," Report of a Workshop Hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The East Asia Institute, November 2009
- Thomas Wright, “Toward Effective Multilateralism: Why Bigger is Not Always Better,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3, July 2009, 163-180,
- “Asia Still Likes America,” with David Shambaugh, International Herald Tribune, February 18, 2009
- “On Reforming the International Order,” Policy Analysis Brief for The Stanley Foundation, February 2009
- "Obama Needs to Re-engage Europe,” The Toronto Star, December 4, 2008
- “Is Europe Ready,” Prospect Magazine, December 2008
- Introduction to G-20 online Forum, with Carlos Pascual, November 14, 2008
- “Rising Powers and International Institutions,” with John Ikenberry, Report for The Century Foundation, June 2008
- Daniel H. Nexon and Thomas Wright, "What’s at Stake in the American Empire Debate,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 101, No. 2, May 2007, pp 253-271,
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