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Graham Allison

Former director of the Kennedy School of Government of the University of Harvard, Graham Allison was an assistant for Russian and former USSR republics affairs of the Defense Secretary during Bill Clinton’s first mandate. He was one of John Kerry’s advisors during the last US presidential campaign.

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“14 years after evil empire: a stable Russia”

by Graham Allison

14 January 2006

January 4 marked the 14th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. Mikhail Gorbatchev resigned from the presidency and Boris Yeltsin became the first president of independent Russia. It was the end of what Ronald Reagan had named “the Evil Empire”. Thus, Russia and 14 independent states emerged. (…)

«The guarantees with respect to the nuclear arsenal must be tangible »

by Graham Allison

10 May 2005

It is not the first time that the United States and Russia organize reciprocal visits of experts in relation to their nuclear arsenals. The purpose is to strengthen mutual trust and to exchange opinions about the methods to preserve these weapons. For example, Russian experts visited a base in (…)