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Profile
Graham Allison is Director of the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. As "Founding Dean"
of the modern School of Government, under his leadership, from 1977
to 1989, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a
major professional school of public policy and government. Dr.
Allison has served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense
under President Reagan and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Policy and Plans under President Clinton, where he coordinated DOD
strategy and policy towards Russia, Ukraine, and the other states
of the former Soviet Union. He has the sole distinction of having
twice been awarded the Department of Defense's highest civilian
award, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, first by Secretary
Cap Weinberger and second by Secretary Bill Perry. He served as a
member of the Defense Policy Board for Secretaries Weinberger,
Carlucci, Cheney, Aspin, Perry and Cohen. Dr. Allison's first book,
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971),
recently released in an updated and revised second edition (1999),
ranks among the best-sellers in 20th century political science with
more than 400,000 copies in print. His latest book, Nuclear
Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, published in
2004, is now in its third printing, and was selected by the New
York Times as one of the "100 most notable books of 2004."
Courses
Spring
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IGA-201
Central Challenges of American Foreign Policy
Media Expertise
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Research
Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Academic Journals
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Allison, Graham, Joseph Cirincione, William C. Potter, and John
Mueller. "Apocalypse When?" National Interest
(November/December 2007).
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Allison, Graham. "Assesssing the Terrorist Threat." Current
488 (December 2006): 31-35.
- Book Chapters
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Allison, Graham. "Institution Builder." Guardian of the
Presidency: The Legacy of Richard E. Neustadt. Ed. Matthew J.
Dickinson, Elizabeth A. Neustadt, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Brookings Institution Press, 2007, 121-148.
- Op-Eds
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Allison, Graham. "Bush's U-turn Toward Common Sense: Talks with
Iran Signify that the Administration has Finally Abandoned a Failed
Part of its Foreign Policy." Los Angeles Times, July 19,
2008.
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Allison, Graham. "Time to Bury a Dangerous Legacy." Daily Star
(Bangladesh), May 5, 2008.
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Allison, Graham, and Robbie Diamond. "Averting an Energy Crisis."
Boston Globe, April 29, 2008.
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Allison, Graham. "Nuclear Attack a Worse-Case Reality?"
Washington Times, April 23, 2008.
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Allison, Graham. "Reading the Tea Leaves in Pakistan." Boston
Globe, February 21, 2008.
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Graham, Allison. "And Now the Deluge." International Herald
Tribune, February 21, 2008.
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Allison, Graham. "What About the Nukes?" Newsweek, December
28, 2007.
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Allison, Graham, and Eric Rosenbach. "Rethinking U.S. Foreign
Policy." Globe and Mail, December 5, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "How American Can Prevent Terrorists from Striking
with a Nuclear Weapon." Union Leader, November 8, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "Talking Through a Nuclear Staredown." Boston
Globe, October 27, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "North Korean Nuclear Accountability Now."
HuffingtonPost.com, September 28, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "No Choice -- Withdrawal Starts in '08." Los
Angeles Times, September 11, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "Will Bush's Tragedy Trap His Successor in Iraq?"
HuffingtonPost.com, September 7, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "Fast Action Needed to Avert Nuclear Terror Strike
on U.S." Baltimore Sun, July 2, 2007.
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Allison, Graham. "Iran's Nuclear Bomb: Acquiesce or Attack?"
HuffingtonPost.com, January 27, 2007.
- Research Papers/Reports
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Carter, Ashton B., William J. Perry, Graham Allison, et al.
"Reducing Nuclear Threats and Preventing Nuclear Terrorism."
National Security Advisory Group, October 19, 2007.