Graham Allison

Graham Allison
Allison in 2017
Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
In office June 1, 1995 – July 1, 2017
Succeeded by	Ash Carter
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans
In office August 6, 1993 – March 15, 1994
President	Bill Clinton
Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government
In office June 1, 1977 – May 30, 1989
Preceded by	Don K. Price
Succeeded by	Robert D. Putnam
Personal details
Born	Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (1940-03-23) March 23, 1940 (age 84) Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Spouse	Liz Allison
Education	Harvard University (BA, PhD) Hertford College, Oxford (BA, MA)

Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[1] He is known for his contributions in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the bureaucratic analysis of decision making, especially during times of crisis. His book Remaking Foreign Policy: The Organizational Connection, co-written with Peter L. Szanton, was published in 1976 and influenced the foreign policy of the Carter administration. Since the 1970s, Allison has also been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy, with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism.^[2]