California agricultural statistics can be found here. In 2013, the top 20 commodities ranged from a high of $7,618 billion for milk and cream to a low of eggs and chicken of $380 million. But water usage does not correlate with the dollar value of output of each of these commodities.
At a recent meeting of the senior officers of one of the services, an academic expert on terrorism—one of the fashionable topics in Washington these days—announced that in the modern world Clausewitz was irrelevant because he had nothing to say about ISIS or the various other nasty malignancies bothering the international landscape.
This important addition to the archives’ collections on peace and citizen diplomacy reflects Dorothy Kilian’s work on US-Soviet relations and peacekeeping activities from 1977 to 1988. During this time, Ms Kilian was based in Pasadena, California, where she participated in peacekeeping efforts through her church and several local and national peace organizations. The scope of her work included youth peacekeeping education, women in peacekeeping, US-Soviet relations and citizen exchanges, Soviet religion and the relationship between faith and peace, SALT and nuclear arms proliferation, and national security, as well as human rights.
Hoover fellow Paul Gregory discusses Gazprom and the EU's antitrust charge against Gazprom, which has used its dominance of European markets to control the flow of natural gas to Europe. If the lawsuit is successful then Gazprom would be forced to open its pipelines to third party suppliers.
Hoover fellow Charles Blahous discusses "King v. Burwell,” a case before the Supreme Court. The court's decision is critical to the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) because if the subsidies are struck down then millions of Americans covered by the ACA might conclude they can no longer afford health insurance and decline to carry it.
For Terry Anderson, an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution and co-founder of the Property and Environment Research Center, the biggest challenge is to get past such battles by incentivizing change with free market principles.
“Was ExxonMobil worried about a skirmish in Georgia? I doubt it, but now companies like that one care a lot about the details of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The conflict in Donetsk is being closely watched day by day by multinational corporations and is influencing their decisions.”
A conservative political philosopher, well-known on the Harvard University campus and beyond, will deliver the final installment of the 2014-15 President’s Lecture Series at the University of Montana.
Tod Lindberg, research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, argues that Posner’s historical analysis is essentially wrong, “International human-rights law is good and useful not because it compels, which it mostly can’t, but because it inspires.”
