The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors’ Seminar with Graham Allison, on Thursday, January 31st, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Prof. Graham Allison will share his takeaways from his fact-finding trip to Iran earlier this month. Over the course of a week, he met with senior Iranian politicians, government leaders, diplomats, and academics with the purpose of hearing their views on the nuclear standoff and US-Iranian relations. Prof. Allison discussed with them the contours of a potential deal, the domestic economic and political situation in Iran, and the way in which regional dynamics, including the war in Iraq, are impacting their strategic calculus.
Prof. Allison, founding dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the faculty chair for the Dubai Initiative. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, where he 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.” Prof. Allison is the author of several seminal books including Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis which ranks among the best-sellers in political science with more than 400,000 copies in print. His latest book “Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe,” (2004), is now in its third printing, and was selected by the New York Times as one of the “100 most notable books of 2004.”
Prof. Allison was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was educated at Davidson College; Harvard College (B.A., Magna Cum Laude, in History); Oxford University (B.A. and M.A., First Class Honors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics); and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Political Science).
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