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Seeking to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.

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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Offers Policymakers New Insights Into Implications Of Cutting-Edge Tech
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Changing The Landscape For New Nuclear Power
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A Fresh Look At The Russian Assets: A Proposal For International Resolution Of Sanctioned Accounts
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Ours to Solve - Once, and For All | Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
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Defense Against The AI Dark Arts: Threat Assessment And Coalition Defense
By Philip Zelikow, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Eric Schmidt, Jason Matheny

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American Federalism Today
American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance  by Michael J. Boskin (ed.)
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A Nation At Risk +40

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Social Security Wage Indexing Revisited
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2025 Hoover Programs

Applications are now open for 2025 Hoover programs. For more information, click the links below.

Core Institutional Priorities
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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A Cultural Decline In Defending America
By Owen West, Kevin Wallsten

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Saving Private Ryan
Strategika Issue 96
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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From October 7 To The Gaza Plan
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The Syrian Non-Catastrophe
By Richard Outzen

via The Caravan

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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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Wildfires are California’s “Public Enemy Number One.” State and Local Government Should Do Much More to Protect Us
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Is California Kamala’s for the Taking?
Kamala Harris

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Uncommon Knowledge

The Great Partnership: How George Shultz Helped Ronald Reagan Win The Cold War

A panel discussion on the legacy of George Shultz and his contributions to U.S. foreign policy, human rights, and the end of the Cold War.

Renewing Civics Education

A “Middle School Dance” Of Trust

In an Information Age during which decentralized news and information have contributed to a greater lack of trust in government and traditional media outlets, is it possible to restore confidence in both institutions?

Capitalism & Freedom

Consumer Sentiment, Junk Fees, Medical Debt, And The Future Of Economic Policy With Neale Mahoney

Jon Hartley and Neale Mahoney (Stanford Economics Professor) discuss Neale’s career, Neale’s research on consumer sentiment, junk fees, and medical debt, as well as Neale’s time in the Biden Administration National Economic Council and the future of economic policy.

GoodFellows

Evil Empire 2.0: Tom Cotton On Europe’s Path To Peace And China’s Dangerous Hegemony

US and Ukrainian officials will meet on March 12 to talk peace in Eastern Europe; a new US approach to China may or may not be in the works; and the Trump administration’s gas-brake approach to imposing tariffs on trade partners has a Hoover economist baffled.

Library & Archives
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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.

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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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Research Services

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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The Collections

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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This week in 1993, Janet Reno became America’s first female US attorney general. The next “glass ceiling” to shatter

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