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Graham Allison is an American political scientist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Known for: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
In this influential work, Graham Allison examines the historical pattern known as the 'Thucydides Trap,' where a rising power threatens to displace an established one, often leading to war. Drawing on...
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
This book presents a collection of insights and reflections from Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, on global affairs, leadership, and the future of nations. Drawing from extensive int...
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The Thucydides Trap: An Ancient Warning for Modern Times
Thucydides’s account of the Peloponnesian War provides the anchor of my argument. His observation—that the growth of Athenian power and the resulting fear in Sparta made conflict inevitable—offers a timeless model of how structural stress drives states into confrontation. It wasn’t a single event or...
From Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
Patterns of Power Transitions: The Lessons of History
In my research at Harvard, my team examined sixteen major cases over the past five centuries in which a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. The results are sobering: twelve ended in war. These include the rivalry between France and Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries, between Britai...
From Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
Lee Kuan Yew’s Worldview
My perspective on politics is rooted in survival. Having led Singapore from a poor tropical backwater into one of the world’s most prosperous societies, I learned that success begins with realism. Nations do not survive by wishful thinking; they survive by adapting to shifting power realities. Ideal...
From Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
China’s Transformation
China’s rise in the past four decades is the most remarkable geopolitical event of our era. I watched it closely, from Mao’s ideological fervor to Deng Xiaoping’s opening of the economy. Deng was China’s true revolutionary in practice. He understood that communism without economic growth is unsustai...
From Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
About Graham Allison
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is known for his work on decision-making in government and international relations, including his seminal study of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison has served as an advis...
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Graham Allison is an American political scientist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is known for his work on decision-making in government and international relations, including his seminal study of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison has served as an advis...
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is known for his work on decision-making in government and international relations, including his seminal study of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison has served as an advisor to multiple U.S. administrations and is a leading voice on U.S.-China relations.
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