He went to the United States, fleeing the anti-Jewish laws of Benito Mussolini's regime, and served with the American armed forces in the Pacific theater from 1943 to 1945.
After World War II, he settled in New York City, and earned his B.A.
In 1952, he started teaching at Brooklyn College, moving in 1964 to the University of Michigan, where he became professor of political science and a senior research scientist in the Institute for Social Research.
He co-founded Decision Insights, a consulting firm that introduced scientific rigor to the development and execution of policy- and decision-making in government and in business.
[5] Political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, one of Organski's students, credits Organski's work as the primary inspiration for selectorate theory.