It is with great pleasure that I have invited my colleague Tom Wright back into the Virtual Studio for this episode of ‘Shaking the Global Order’, the first of the new season. With Tom today I am particularly interested in how he sees the current Trump administration’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but also take a ‘peek’ at President Trump’s ‘New Imperialism’ examining Venezuela, Iran, Greenland and more.
Today, Tom is a senior fellow with the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Brookings Institution. In the Biden administration, Tom served as special assistant to the president and senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council. At the White House, Tom worked on a wide range of projects and issues, including the 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy, the Russia-Ukraine war, European security and U.S.-China relations among other issues.
Tom continues his writing and has published relatively recently in Foreign Affairs and he contributes also to The Atlantic magazine.