Political Scientist
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as dean from 1977 to 1989. He is best known for coining the concept of the Thucydides Trap and for his foundational work Essence of Decision on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
by Graham Allison
Allison revives Thucydides's Trap: war between a rising and ruling power is historically the norm, not the exception. He applies this lens to the US-China rivalry.
The books Graham Allison references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond argues that geography, not racial superiority, explains why some civilizations dominated others. Differences in domesticable plants, animals, and continental axes gave certain societies an insurmountable head start.
Who Graham draws from, and who draws from Graham — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.