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Belfer Director's Seminar with Graham Allison

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Please join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for a Director's Seminar with Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, moderated by Belfer Center Director Meghan O’Sullivan on Wednesday, April 10th from 2:30 - 3:30 PM in the Belfer Library (L369). Allison will be discussing "Reflections on my Dialogue with China's Leadership." The seminar will focus on his recent trip to China and his takeaways from from his meetings with senior Chinese policymakers, including President Xi Jinping and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi.

This event will be off-the-record, in-person, and is restricted to Harvard ID holders. If your RSVP has been confirmed, you will receive confirmation and event details prior to the session.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Graham Allison shaking hands with President Xi Jinping

About

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making. Allison was the “Founding Dean” of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as Director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal." This resulted in the safe return of more than 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4,000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeted at the United States. His latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (2017), is a national and international bestseller. His 2013 book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States and the World, has been a bestseller in the U.S. and abroad. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, now in its third printing, was selected by the New York Times as one of the "100 most notable books of 2004." Dr. Allison's first book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), ranks among the all-time bestsellers with more than 500,000 copies in print.