A.F.K. Organski

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A.F.K. Organski (17 May 1923 – 6 March 1998) was Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a cofounder of Decision Insights, Inc. He pioneered work spanning several decades on the several aspects of world politic, including political demography, political development, and grand strategy. His publications are widely available in scholarly journals. He was the author of World Politics, The Stages of Political Development, The War Ledger, Birth, Death and Taxes, and The $36 Billion Bargain.

A.F.K. Organski was born in Rome in 1923, where he attended the Ginnasio Liceo Torquato Tasso. He came to the United States fleeing the anti-Jewish Laws of the Mussolini regime and later served with the American armed forces in the Pacific theater from 1943 to 1945. After World War II, he settled in New York City, where he became an American citizen in 1944 and earned his B.A. (1947), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1951) degrees from New York University. In 1952 he started teaching at the Brooklyn College, moving in 1964 to the University of Michigan, where he was professor of political science and senior research scientist in the Institute for Social Research. 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. (Tammen, 2000)