Oral history interview with Graham Allison [electronic resource], 2000

Biographical Note

Graham Allison has served as a professor and dean at Harvard Univesity's John F. Kennedy School of Government and as Director of the Belfer Cenrer for Science and International Affairs. He has also served as an advisor for the United States' Department of Defense

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Charlotte, North Carolina; Davids on College; Harvard University: B.A., history; Carnegie Corporation: effectiveness in communication and distribution of research, Preventing Deadly Conflict Commission, internal relations, leadership, relationships with grant recipients; role at Russian Research Center now Davis Center; government work: Assistant Secretary of Policy and Plans, advising, insiders versus outsiders; Owls, Doves, and Hawks: colleagues' reactions, policy community; nuclear terrorism; dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government: work, Godkin lectures

Subjects

• Allison, Graham--Interviews.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• College teachers--Interviews.
• Harvard University. Russian Research Center.
• Interviews
• Magat, Dick, interviewer.
• Nuclear arms control.
• Oral histories
• United States--Relations--Foreign countries.