Hoover Senior Fellow, Stephen Kotkin, introduces a brand-new series, Hoover History Lab: Policy in Brief, where History Lab fellows explore global policy challenges using history as a guide to inform effective solutions.
Policy in Brief analyzes contemporary global policy challenges, offering insights and providing possible solutions through a historical lens.
>> Stephen Kotkin: Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen Kotkin, the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution here at Stanford University and the Director of the Hoover History Lab. The Hoover History Lab uses history to address major policy challenges of today. We focus on war and diplomacy, economics and finance, science and tech, and politics and institutions.
We call this consequential history. When we use history to address contemporary policy challenges, we also emphasize next-generation scholars and talent. We invest in our young people, and we want to give them the chance to become practitioners in what we do. We give them as wide a berth as possible.
And I know you'll enjoy their work as much as I do. Thank you.
ABOUT THE HOOVER HISTORY LAB
The Hoover History Lab is not a traditional academic department but instead functions as a hub for research, teaching, and convening—in person and online, in the classroom and in print. The Lab studies and uses history to inform public policy, develops next-generation scholars, and reinforces the work of Hoover’s world-class historians to inform scholarship and the teaching of history at Stanford and beyond.
