Mailing address
Princeton Project on National Security, Princeton University
423F Robertson Hall
Princeton, NJ, 08544-1013
Thomas J. Wright
Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: (609) 258-9709
Fax: (609) 258-1418
Email: twright@princeton.edu
Experience
Thomas Wright is a senior researcher for the Princeton Project on National Security, a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security Program from 2004–2007, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research is on U.S. grand strategy, strategic responses to unipolarity, and whether regime type and normative considerations affect balancing. He has worked as a research assistant on a number of projects in this area including the National Intelligence Council's working group on "Responses to American Primacy" and a working group for its "World in 2020 Project". He previously worked as a public affairs consultant in Dublin and contributed a regular column on international politics to a number of Irish newspapers and magazines. He received a B.A. in history and politics and an M.A. in comparative politics from University College Dublin and a M. Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University.
May 2007
"What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate"
Journal Article, American Political Science Review, issue 2, volume 101
By Daniel H. Nexon and Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
"Scholars of world politics enjoy well-developed theories of the consequences of unipolarity or hegemony, but have little to say about what happens when a state's foreign relations take on imperial properties...."
March 2, 2007
"Punishment to Fit the Nuclear Crime"
Op-Ed, The Washington Post
By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
"In addition to highlighting the dangers of this action, making nuclear transfer a crime against humanity would greatly expand opportunities for prosecution, denying national governments the ability to shelter these criminals."
February 14, 2006
"Israel Not to Blame for Iran's Nuclear Blackmail"
Op-Ed, The Irish Times
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
Iran's regime is extreme and has made repeated threats against Israel; there are good reasons to be concerned about its nuclear programme, writes Tom Wright.
October 15, 2005
"Schelling Helped Stop the Cold War Turning Very Hot"
Op-Ed, The Irish Times
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...the most important event of the 20th century was the one that did not happen — the cold war turning hot...."
August 3, 2005
"The Possibility of Armageddon"
Op-Ed, The Irish Times
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
The legacy of Hiroshima: The bombing of Hiroshima 60 years ago accelerated the end of the second World War. But it also ushered in a new era in world history. Tom Wright explores how the nuclear bomb transformed military thinking with the advent of the terrifying strategic concept of Mutually Assured Destruction.
May 7, 2005
"Nuclear Pact in Real Trouble"
Op-Ed, The Irish Times
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
Could the World Be on the Path to a New Nuclear Crisis?
March 20, 2005
"In the White House, People Power Trumps Terrorism"
Op-Ed, The Sunday Independent
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
"FOR DECADES Sinn Fein had meticulously built a first rate organisation in the US. Last week, an amateur operation run on a shoestring and human spirit brought it crashing down...."
March 16, 2005
"For Our Benefit, for Our Values"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Magill Magazine, Ireland's Leading Political and Cultural Monthly
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
Thomas Wright argues that only America can give the world the leadership it needs.
September 15, 2004
"America's Neoconservatives -- All Muscle, No History?"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, The Globalist
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
Thomas Wright examines America’s ideological hawks and their post-Iraq future.
