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Graham Allison

Professor, Harvard Kennedy School

Graham Allison
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School and author most recently of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
Ideas

China’s PLA Is a Peasant Army No More

The Pentagon cannot hope to prevail merely by outspending Beijing.

Ideas

Can North Korea Drag the US and China Into War?

History offers clues about the likely course of a dangerous dynamic in east Asia.

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The North Korean Threat Beyond ICBMs

Even without them, the Kim regime can menace its immediate neighborhood—or sell nuclear material to rogue states.

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What Xi Jinping Wants

China's leader is determined to turn his country into 'the biggest player in the history of the world.' Can he do it while avoiding a dangerous collision with America?

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9 Reasons the Iran Deal Makes Sense

Iran’s nuclear ambitions will long remain a cardinal challenge for the United States and its allies. The current agreement puts them in the best position to meet this challenge.

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Why the Best Arguments Against an Iran Deal Are All Wrong

The West's leaders must not forget why they came to the negotiating table in the first place.

Policy

What a Major Arms Control Treaty Teaches Us About the Iran Deal

Nearly 50 years of the Non-Proliferation Treaty have proven one thing — multilateral agreements can work to make the world safer.

Ideas

The Iran Nuclear Deal, in 3 Charts

Thursday's framework agreement was a start, but there are hundreds of areas where a final deal could be derailed.

Threats

Iran's 'Boots on the Ground' in Iraq Could Backfire on US Interests

As the saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. Most forget, however, that wars can produce even more perverse partners. By Graham Allison

Ideas

Don't Worry, the Next World War Is Not Upon Us...Yet

Why U.S. military power and America's relationship to China today rule out any sane comparisons with August 1914. By Graham Allison

Threats

The Easiest Way We Could Stop the Prospect of Nuclear Terrorism

The core truth: no nuclear material means no nuclear bombs. By Graham Allison