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Luke Harding Picks Five Books That Expose The Secret World Of Spies

quoting Timothy Garton Ashvia The Guardian
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Fom insights into the Russian spy agency Sergei Skripal worked for, to a candid account from Stalin’s assassinations director – these books take you inside the closed world of espionage.
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Silk Roads and Bad Maps: China and the US in the Indo-Pacific with Gary Roughead

by Admiral Gary Rougheadvia Hoover Institution
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Admiral Gary Roughead (USN, Ret.) the Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution gave a talk titled Silk Roads and Bad Maps: China and the US in the Indo-Pacific.

 

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The Libertarian: Trade, Tariffs, And Trump

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Thursday, March 15, 2018

When does national security justify limits on trade?

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Fear No Evil With Natan Sharansky

interview with Natan Sharanskyvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

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Why the long communist experiment in the former USSR still matters today.

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Policy Seminar with Michael Auslin

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
George Shultz Conference Room, Herbert Hoover Memorial Building

Michael Auslin, the Williams-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Hoover, came to the policy workshop to discuss his book project "Before Empire: American Expansion and Great Power Competition in the Pacific Ocean In the 19th Century." 

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'Hello Girls' Faced Uphill Battle, Speaker Tells Reading Audience

featuring Elizabeth Cobbsvia Reading Eagle
Monday, March 12, 2018

[Subscription Required] Women who served in World War I were denied benefits and recognition accorded to male veterans.

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Political Risk: How Businesses And Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

featuring Condoleezza Rice, Amy Zegartvia Publishers Weekly
Monday, March 12, 2018
Rice (Democracy), the former U.S. secretary of state and a political economy professor at Stanford's business school, and Zegart (Eyes on Spies), senior fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the Hoover Institution, distill the advice they convey to M.B.A. students on how companies should handle political risks ranging from indignant activists on Twitter to hostile foreign states with teams of dedicated hackers.
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Will Putin Ever Leave? Could He If He Wanted?

by Tunku Varadarajan featuring Stephen Kotkinvia Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 9, 2018

A Stalin biographer contemplates Russia’s weakness today, which makes its current ruler such a threat to the West.

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Are Scholars Looking For History In All The Wrong Places?

featuring Niall Fergusonvia The Washington Post
Friday, March 9, 2018

Niall Ferguson, one of the world's best-known historians, claims that his colleagues have long been victims of a bias known as the drunkard search. This observational bias, also called the streetlight effect, refers to the human propensity to look for something only where the search is easiest.

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Fear No Evil With Natan Sharansky

interview with Natan Sharanskyvia Uncommon Knowledge
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Why the long communist experiment in the former USSR still matters today

Podcast: Fear No Evil With Natan Sharansky
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