Graham Allison

Harvard University

Bio

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University. He was previously director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Featured Work

Graham Allison. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

NOV 8, 2017 Podcast

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? with Graham Allison

Thucydides is not saying that the inevitable frictions between a rising power and a ruling one will always lead to war, says Allison. The danger ...

JUL 20, 2017 Podcast

Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"

Thucydides's Trap is the dangerous dynamic that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, explains Harvard's Graham Allison. So is war ...

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

NOV 16, 2004 Podcast

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Graham Allison makes a sobering assessment on why a nuclear attack on U.S. soil is inevitable unless we take immediate, well-concerted measures.