Graham Allison
Political scientist and Harvard professor
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and Harvard professor who analyses US national security and defense policy. He wrote Destined for War.
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American Born 1940 in Charlotte, United States
About Graham Allison
Graham Tillett Allison Jr. was born on March 23, 1940, in Charlotte. At Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he holds the Douglas Dillon professorship in government. He was founding dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and has directed its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he became known for studying how bureaucracies shape decisions in times of crisis. Allison has served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense and advised defense secretaries from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. He is a bestselling author whose books include Destined for War (2017) and Lee Kuan Yew (2013).