Since independence in 1960, the Nigerian government is estimated to have lost over 400 billion dollars to corruption, and has consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. This begs the question: what is so distinctive about Nigeria’s corruption?

Stanford is seeking scholars for a new fellowship that aims to examine Iranian politics in the last half of the twentieth century.

On Friday, March 9, Hoover Archives hosted a visit by Captain Michael G. Haile, one of the former executive committee members of the military junta known as the Derg which ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987. The Derg, also known as the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army, overthrew Haile Selassie, the former Emperor of Ethiopia.

Ewa Syska and Anna Idzikowska-Czubaj, two PhDs from the Institute of History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, have just completed their research on one of Hoover Archives’ premier East European collections, the Mieczysław F. Rakowski Papers, and more specifically on Rakowski’s voluminous “political diaries,” detailing nearly four decades (1958−96) of his career in Communist Poland and life in the first years after its demise in 1989.