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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 Kennedy School, 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. 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), was released in an updated and revised second edition
(1999) andranks among the bestsellers in 20th century political
science with more than 400,000 copies in print. His latest book,
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, 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
For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Book Chapters
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Allison, Graham. "Avoiding Crisis Between Superpowers." Power
and Restraint. Ed. Richard Rosecrance, and Gu Guoliang.
PublicAffairs, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "Keeping China and the U.S. Together." Power
and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the US-China Relationship.
Ed. Richard Rosecrance, and Gu Guoliang. PublicAffairs, 2009.
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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Allison, Graham. "How to Keep the Bomb From Terrorists."
Newsweek. March 23, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "Nuclear Disorder." Foreign Affairs.
January/February 2010, 74-85.
- Op-Eds
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Allison, Graham. "The Fragility of the Global Nuclear Order."
Boston Globe, September 30, 2008.
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Allison, Graham. "The Real Afghan Issue is Pakistan." Wall
Street Journal, March 30, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "North Korea Won't Fire Nuke. . .but Could Sell
One to Osama." The Sun (England), May 28, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "A New Red Line For Iran." Washington Post,
June 1, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "Don't Underestimate Nuclear Terror Threat."
Detroit News, October 9, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "In Afghanistan, Kerry Keeps US Goals Modest."
Boston Globe, November 4, 2009.
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Allison, Graham. "A Failure to Imagine the Worst." Foreign
Policy.com, January 26, 2010.
- Public Testimony
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Allison, Graham. Testimony to the Committee on Homeland Security
and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Financial
Management, Government Information, Federal Services and
International Security, U.S. Senate, April 24, 2008.
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Allison, Graham. "Saving the NPT and Noproliferation Regime in an
Era of Nuclear Renaissance." Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade, U.S. House of Representatives, July
24, 2008.
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Graham, Bob, Jim Talent, Timothy J. Roemer, Wendy R. Sherman,
Graham T. Allison, Richard Verma, Henry Sokolski, Stephen
Rademaker, and Robin Cleveland. "World at Risk: The Report of the
Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism."
Testimony for the Armed Services Committee, U.S. House of
Representatives, January 22, 2009.