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Gorbachev And The Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice reflects on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s visits to the Stanford campus in 1990 and 1992 and his special connection to the Hoover Institution and its Library & Archives.
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The Hoover Institution Joins NSF-Backed SECURE Initiative To Support Research Security, International Collaboration
Today, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a five-year $67 million investment establishing Safeguarding the Entire Community of the US Research Ecosystem (SECURE) ($50 million to University of Washington & $17 million to Texas A&M University), as mandated in the "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022."
Human Vs. Machine: Behavioral Differences Between Expert Humans And Language Models In Wargame Simulations
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Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024
To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.
Matt Pottinger: “We Are Now In The Foothills Of A Great-Power Hot War”
There has been a tortuous debate in Washington foreign policy circles for several years now about whether to call the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China a “new cold war”.
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Israel And The Next US Administration
According to an oft-repeated Israeli story from the 1960s, when an aide mentioned a drought, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol worriedly asked, “Where? “In the Negev,” explained the aide. “Thank God it’s not in the US, then I’d be really concerned,” said Eshkol.
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The Antigrowth Agendas Of Harris And Trump
[Subscription Required] Both candidates are running on economic platforms filled with destructive nonsense.
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Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, And Wishful Thinking
Drawing on his extensive experience as a historian and diplomat, Philip Zelikow warns that the United States faces an exceptionally volatile time in global politics and that the period of maximum danger might be in the next one to three years.
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Mike Petrilli: What Vance And Harris Mean For Federal Education Policy, With Dale Chu
Hoover Institution fellow Mike Petrilli and Fordham Institute associate director of research David Griffith talk with Dale Chu, a senior visiting fellow at the Fordham Institute, about how Biden passing the torch and Trump picking J.D. Vance could affect US school policy.
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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
The Civic Education Crisis: How We Got Here, What We Must Do is a call to action, an effort to save our republic through better civic education. America faces a crisis in civic education that imperils the long-term health of the country.
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Quantum Computing Must Remain At Forefront Of National Security Efforts
Artificial Intelligence, otherwise known as AI, is the technology topic de jour, having overshadowed quantum computing as what to discuss when showing off defense technology chops. All will…
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Featured Fellows
Featured Work:
The Antisemitism Of The Left
The hatred of Jews has ancient origins. Today the hatred goes by the abstract and antiseptic modern term “antisemitism.” It persists in pockets of the right.
June 23, 2024
Peter Berkowitz
Featured Work:
Ending Bailouts, At Last
In 2008, we had a financial crisis. Our government responded once again with bailouts. Bailouts keep existing business going, and most of all protect creditors from losses.
June 14, 2024
John H. Cochrane
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Environmental Liabilities, Borrowing Costs, and Pollution Prevention Activities: The Nationwide Impact of the Apex Oil Ruling
The 2008 Apex Oil court decision reduced the circumstances under which specific environmental clean-up obligations were dischargeable in Chapter 11, potentially affecting the securities prices, credit conditions, and pollution practices of corporations not in Chapter 11.
February 17, 2022
Ross Levine
Featured Work:
The Paramount Importance Of Allies
I just got back from a 10-day trip to South Korea and Japan. I returned home with many new impressions which I will share in future columns. My biggest takeaway, however, was the paramount importance of allies for advancing U.S. national interests.
June 27, 2024
Michael McFaul
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Timothy Garton Ash: “We Need Ukraine To Win”
Hoover Institution fellow Timothy Garton Ash says the possibility of a Russian victory not only threatens peace in Europe but also risks emboldening authoritarian regimes across the globe.
June 18, 2024
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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan
The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
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California on Your Mind
Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
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Beyond Evolution: Unraveling The Origins Of Life With Stephen Meyer And James Tour
In this wide-ranging conversation, Stephen Meyer and James Tour contrast biological evolution with the more complex challenge of chemical evolution, where modern science still struggles to explain how nonliving chemicals could give rise to life.
We Win, They Lose, With Matthew Kroenig
Is a regional war across the Middle East about to erupt? And what to make of a Venezuelan regime that doesn’t honor election results?
Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics Prof) On Institutions, Economic Growth, And AI
Daron Acemoglu and Jon Hartley discuss the contributions of institutions to economic growth and how regulation holds back growth—and by how much—along with other economic growth theories, as well as artificial intelligence and the future of work.
Library & Archives
A World-Class Library & Archives
Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.
Exhibitions | Now On View
The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.
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Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.
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Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.
Digital First Initiative
Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.
Engagement & Outreach
Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.
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