Bruce Allyn

<p><b>Bruce Allyn</b> has for three decades served as a mediator and advisor on political and economic reform in global hotspots in the former Soviet Union, Middle East and Africa.</p><br><p>Fluent in Russian from his study of Russian literature in college, Allyn was fortunate to be chosen in 1983 as the bilingual "rapporteur" for a new Harvard-Soviet Joint Study on Crisis Prevention. He would begin dozens of trips to Moscow where he developed close relationships with key Soviet reformers, who later became Mikhail Gorbachev's top advisors and ministers. For the six years Gorbachev was in office, Allyn worked with the Soviet President's inner circle on reform and to convene the historic meetings of the key participants in the 1962 missile crisis. Appointed Director of the Harvard-Soviet Joint Study, Allyn would publish with his colleagues the shocking revelations about how close the world came to nuclear war in the acclaimed <i>Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse </i>(Pantheon 1993), which commentators hailed as enlightening and authentic "history by those who made it."</p><br><p>Allyn received a Ph.D. in Political Economy and an M.A. in Soviet Studies from Harvard and an M.A. in Philosophy and Politics from Oxford University.</p><br><p>His other publications include <i>Windows of Opportunity: From Cold War to Peaceful Competition in U.S.-Soviet Relations </i>(Harper and Row, 1989) and <i>Back to the Brink: Proceedings of the Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis </i>(Harvard University, 1992). He is a contributor to the classic college text <i>The Use of Force: Military Power and International Relations </i>(Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).</p>