Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Graham Allison, 2000Biographical NoteGraham 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 ContentsChildhood: Charlotte, North Carolina; Davidson 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
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by Graham Allison. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold a non-exclusive license to enable library activities
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