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Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order

International Law Expert Defines Ideal United States-United Nations Relationship Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Stanford

Hoover Institution Press today released Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order by Ken Anderson. In this book, Anderson examines the relationship between the United States and the United Nations and analyzes their interaction on issues including security, human rights, and development.

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George H. Nash cartoon

Herbert Hoover's Road Not Taken

by George H. Nash, Charity Nebbevia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

Completed forty-eight years ago, his magnum opus appears at last. George H. Nash discusses its insights into our thirty-first president. By Charity Nebbe.

Three barefoot men face

Shooting the Bolsheviks

by Bertrand M. Patenaudevia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

Amid the ruins of the Great War, an American camera crew filmed a shocking sight. That roll of celluloid has taken a strange trip through history. By Bertrand M. Patenaude.

Robert Gates cartoon

Back to the (Uncertain) Future

by Kori Schakevia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

Proposals to cut deeply into the Pentagon budget carry risks that the administration has yet to confront. By Kori N. Schake.

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Threat for Threat

by Dimitri Landavia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

How South Korea might deter its nuclear neighbor without going nuclear itself. By Dimitri Landa.

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via Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

The nineteenth-century novelist Stendhal praised Pont-en-Royans, a pretty cliffside town along the Bourne in southeast France.

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Harrison named winner of the National Award for Applied Economics 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

Mark Harrison, a research fellow at Hoover and economic historian and specialist in Soviet affairs, was named one of the winners of the National Award for Applied Economics 2012. The prize was awarded to Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich for their work titled, "The First World War, Civil War and Reconstruction: Russia's national income 1913-1928,” published in the Journal of Economic History in 2011.

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Condoleezza Rice

A conversation with Hoover fellow Condoleezza Rice

via Fox and Friends (Fox News)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, discusses, with Fox and Friends, the elections, noting that she is not interested in being vice president. Rice also discussed Israel and Iran, saying that Iran needs a strong message concerning nuclear weapons and should understand that the United States will use military force if necessary.

Peter Berkowitz

Berkowitz discusses the relationship between the United States and Israel on WTOP radio

via WTOP (Washington, DC)
Monday, March 5, 2012

Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses his upcoming book Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War.

Lieutenant Commander Manuel Hernandez

Ask the Expert: Lieutenant Commander Manuel Hernandez

with Lieutenant Commander Manuel Hernandezvia Hoover Videos
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

On Wednesday, March 7, Hoover national security affairs fellow Lieutenant Commander Manuel Hernandez hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss US naval strategy. Click here to watch the video. (33:54)

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Military History Working Group


The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.