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Abraham Organski
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Abramo Fimo Kenneth Organski was Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, the founder of Power transition theory and a co-founder of Decision Insights, Incorporated. His pioneering work spanned several decades, and focused on specific aspects of world politics, including: political demography; political development; and grand strategy.
Career
He was the author of World Politics, The Stages of Political Development, The War Ledger, Birth, Death and Taxes, and The $36 Billion Bargain. Other publications are widely available in scholarly journals. A.F.K. Organski was born in Rome, Italy.
As a youth, he attended the Ginnasio Liceo Torquato Tasso.
He went to the United States fleeing the anti-Jewish laws of the Benito Mussolini regime and later served with the American armed forces in the Pacific theater from 1943 to 1945. After World World War II, he settled in New York City, where he became an American citizen in 1944 and earned his Bachelor of Arts (1947), Master of Arts (1948), and Doctor of Philosophy (1951) degrees from New York University.
He co-founded Decision Insights, a consulting firm focused on introducing scientific rigor to the execution of policy and decision making in government and business. One of his theories was that the mainly-Caucasian Soviet Union and United States would ally against mainland China, a growing power in the 1960s.
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In 1952 he started teaching at the Brooklyn College, moving in 1964 to the University of Michigan, where he became professor of political science and senior research scientist in the Institute for Social Research. This would occur despite China sharing a Communist ideology with the Soviet Union.
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