Thomas Wright

Brookings Institution

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Thomas Wright is director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and a fellow in its Project on International Order and Strategy. He is author of  All Measures Short of War; The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power.

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