--- title: Graham Allison | TIME description: Allison is the director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and author of the forthcoming book Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?. canonical: https://time.com/author/graham-allison/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/graham-allison/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Graham Allison ## Graham Allison _Allison is the director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and author of the forthcoming book_ [Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?](https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-America-Escape-Thucydidess-ebook/dp/B01IAS9FZY)_._ ## Graham Allison *  Jan 5, 2023 ### [How to Avoid the Ukraine War Going Nuclear](https://time.com/6244330/russia-ukraine-war-nuclear-threat/) Nuclear war is a serious possibility over Ukraine but the Biden Administration has been pursuing the... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 6, 2017 ### [Can Trump and Xi Avoid War and Strike a North Korea Deal?](https://time.com/4728308/trump-xi-north-korea/) 'In the 16 cases over the past 500 years when a rising nation threatened to displace a ruling one, w... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 4, 2014 ### [Viral Threats](https://time.com/3618049/viral-threats/) Why combatting the extremists of ISIS is harder than fighting an Ebola outbreak [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/graham-allison/","name":"Graham Allison"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/graham-allison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/graham-allison/"},"name":"Graham Allison","jobTitle":null,"description":"Allison is the director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and author of the forthcoming book Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?.","url":"https://time.com/author/graham-allison/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```