OP-EDS
February 4, 1990
Both Germanys - - Almost Unified
New York Times
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
No country, especially the U.S., can any longer avoid addressing the issue of German reunification.
June 18, 1989
US-Soviet treaty seeks to end policy of "shoot first, ask questions later
Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
US-Soviet treaty seeks to end policy of "shoot first, ask questions later
May 28, 1989
Thawing Cold War
The Dallas Morning Star
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
Once again General Secretary Gorbachev appears to be trying to answer da to a Western proposal -- this time on conventional arms control. Moscow's latest proposal largely accepts the North Atlantic Treaty Organization proposal for reductions in conventional arms by both alliances to equal numbers of tanks, artillery and armored troop carriers. Moreover, the numerical ceilings Mr. Gorbachev proposed are identical with NATO's earlier proposal on tanks and armored troop
March 15, 1989
If Not the Cold War, Then What?
Chicago Tribune
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
The beginning of East-West conventional arms talks in Vienna represents another window of opportunity for stabilizing a relationship between the two superpowers beyond the Cold War. If not the Cold War, what? What relationship between the superpowers is both desirable and feasible?
February 19, 1989
Success Is Within Reach
New York Times
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the unilateral reductions in tanks and troop divisions in Eastern Europe, Mikhail S. Gorbachev will have sharply reduced the major military threat to American vital interests. If he continues pursuing his current agenda for the next several years, he will pose for the West for the first time since the late 1940's a conceptual challenge: What do we want beyond victory in the cold war?
February 17, 1989
A Remarkable Realism on Afghanistan; Gorbachev Saw the Futility, We Should See the Opportunity
Los Angeles Times
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
The withdrawal of the last Soviet soldier from Afghanistan is an occasion not only for rejoicing but for reflection as well. The effect of Soviet defeat may prove more profound than the consequences of American failure in Vietnam. Mikhail S. Gorbachev's remarkable realism here demonstrates an unprecedented willingness to cooperate in resolving regional conflicts.
February 5, 1989
Avoiding Missile Crisis
Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
Avoiding Missile Crisis
January 1, 1989
Biting the Hand That Governs; We Demean the Bureaucracy, Then Cry About Uncivil Service
Washington Post
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
SUPPOSE someone wanted to undermine the competence of a business, university or public agency. He could cut the pay of its core professionals, demean the institution, degrade the status and responsibilities of top-level managers, deprive careerists of top jobs by filling them with outsiders more committed to their own personal agenda than to the goals of the enterprise and discourage able new people from joining the organization.
December 5, 1988
Reviving the Call to Public Service
Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
John Fitzgerald Kennedy called on his fellow Americans to ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. A quarter century later, however, most Americans have settled for a lesser bargain. The nation's problems seem so large, opportunities to serve so few, and the demands of life so pressing, we forgo asking what the country can do for us if allowed to concentrate on what we can do for ourselves.
September 4, 1988
Defusing The Nuclear Menace
Washington Post
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School and Albert Carnesale, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
ARMS CONTROL has fallen off the nation's political radar in recent months. But it shouldn't. The world is as dangerous as ever.
U.S. and Soviet arsenals number over 50,000 nuclear weapons, most more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima; intercontinental ballistic missiles can deliver these destructive payloads in less than 30 minutes to any point on the globe.
