Rethinking America's Security: Beyond Cold War to New World Order

by Graham T. Allison (Editor), Gregory F. Treverton (Editor)

A collection of essays sponsored by the American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations which examines how the American government must re-evaluate its national security and economic policies. Emphasis is placed on the events of the Gulf War and its effect on security priorities.

480 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1992

About the author

Librarian Note: Also writes under the name Graham Allison.

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 , co-written 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 U.S. national security and defense policy, with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism.

Allison is best known as a political scientist for his book Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), in which he developed two new theoretical paradigms — an organizational process model and a bureaucratic politics model — to compete with the then-prevalent approach of understanding foreign policy decision making using a rational actor model. Essence of Decision swiftly revolutionized the study of decision making in political science and beyond.

Excerpted from Wikipedia.