Graham Allison

Political scientist, professor

TED Speaker

Graham Allison is a leading analyst of US national security and defense policy with a special interest in China, nuclear weapons and decision-making.

Why you should listen

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and the best-selling author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, he has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense and advised the Secretaries of Defense under every president from Reagan to Obama.

Graham Allison’s TED talk

18:43

Graham Allison

Is war between China and the US inevitable?

Posted Oct 2018

More news and ideas from Graham Allison

News

We the Future: Talks from TED, Skoll Foundation and United Nations Foundation

September 27, 2018

We live in contentious times. Yet behind the dismaying headlines and social-media-fueled quarrels, people around the world — millions of them — are working unrelentingly to solve problems big and small, dreaming up new ways to expand the possible and build a better world. At “We the Future,” a day of talks at the TED […]