From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Graham Tillett Allison Jr born 23 March 1940 is an American political scientist and professor at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard He is renowned for his contribution in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the bureaucratic analysis of decision making especially during times of crisis His book Remaking Foreign Policy The Organizational Connection cowritten with Peter Szanton was published in 1976 and had some influence on the foreign policy of the administration of President Jimmy Carter which took office in early 1977 Since the 1970s Allison has also been a leading analyst of US national security and defense policy with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism Description above from the Wikipedia article Graham T Allison licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia