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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the...
The Perfect Pitch: Baseball And Hoover Sound Recordings
Just in time for the opening of the baseball season, sound recordings of speeches by legendary baseball managers, executives, and journalists from Hoover’s Commonwealth Club of California collection are now digitized and available to researchers. The collection features such heavy hitters as Bob Lurie, Tony La Russa, Dusty Baker, and Billy Beane.
Why one national curriculum is bad for America
The following Hoover fellows and task force members are part of a broad group of educators, business people, and labor leaders who oppose the call for a nationalized curriculum for public schools across the nation.
Click here to read the entire statement and view the signatories.
Uncommon Knowledge television program a feature of landmark Preventive Force Conference
The Hoover Institution's Uncommon Knowledge television program was a special feature of the Preventive Force Conference May 25-27 at the Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park.
BOOK RELEASE Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict by John B. Dunlop
Hoover Institution fellow John B. Dunlop provides a historical context in which to understand the Russian invasion of Chechnya in December 1994, tracing events from 4,000 BC to the time of the invasion in his new book Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict, now available from Cambridge University Press ($54.95, hardback; $18.95, paperback).
Hoover Fellow Richard A. Epstein Honored With Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize From College of William and Mary Law School
Working Group On The Role Of Military History In Contemporary Conflict Discuss Deterring China, Russia, And Iran
The Hoover Institution’s Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict gathered on Friday, April 8, 2022, for a series of wide-ranging conversations about how US policy leaders can help end the ongoing war in Ukraine and confront other challenges that threaten security and stability in America and the West.
Remembering Fouad Ajami
Fouad Ajami, a renowned scholar of the Middle East and the Herbert and Jane Dwight Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, passed away on Sunday, June 22, 2014.
Hoover Institution Press Publishes Disruptive Strategies: The Military Campaigns Of Ascendant Powers And Their Rivals
The Hoover Institution has published Disruptive Strategies: The Military Campaigns of Ascendant Powers and Their Rivals, edited by Research Fellow David Berkey.
Angus Burgin Delivers Keynote at First Annual Workshop on Political Economy
As part of the inaugural Hoover Institution Library and Archives’ Workshop on Political Economy, Professor Angus Burgin of Johns Hopkins University gave the keynote lecture titled "Hayek, Friedman, and the Return of Laissez-Faire."
BEHIND THE SCENES: At the 2017 Spring Retreat, Hoover fellows describe America at a “crossroads”—and how to chart the way forward
Hoover’s Spring 2017 Retreat brought together Hoover supporters and fellows to meet around topics that shape nations yet also touch individual lives in personal ways at home and abroad. Riveting presentations and incisive question-and-answer periods sustained an energy level that felt appropriate to the rapidly moving history in which Hoover and its supporters are playing a role.
Hoover Announces 2009–10 National Fellows
The Hoover Institution’s annual postdoctoral W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows have been named for the 2009–10 academic year.
Featured Podcast Episodes For 2021
In 2021, the Hoover Institution created scores of podcast episodes about today’s most urgent topics in public policy and beyond. As 2021 draws to a close, we want to highlight some of the year’s most popular episodes, from both new and existing podcast series. Episode highlights include discussions ranging from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to the Biden administration’s new policies.
Hoover’s Rare Materials Illuminate A Forgotten Theater Of Fighting In WWII
There were many important battles in World War II (WWII) which occurred in the European and Asian theatres, respectively. However, there was also another important theatre of battle in WWII which is still not well known: Africa.
Q&A With Condoleezza Rice, The Eighth Director Of The Hoover Institution
The following is based on an interview conducted by Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow Peter Robinson with the Hoover Institution’s new director, Condoleezza Rice, on Hoover’s flagship broadcast, Uncommon Knowledge, on September 11, 2020.
CEAS And Hoover Celebrate Their Joint Anniversaries In A Two-Day Alumni Event On “Japan In The Pacific World”
In their first-ever collaboration in fifty years, the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and Hoover Institution Library & Archives jointly held a two-day celebration of a trifecta of anniversaries: the CEAS’s 50th Anniversary, Hoover’s centennial and, the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives Year in Review 2020
Despite the challenges of the 2020 global pandemic, we at the Library & Archives have continued to focus on collecting, preserving, and sharing our collections, albeit in new ways. Since mid-March, the Library & Archives has transitioned to a hybrid work model that allows us to protect the health and well-being of our staff and the greater research community while continuing to advance our mission to collect materials and serve the research community.
Q&A: David Berkey On Disruptive Strategies: The Military Campaigns Of Ascendant Powers And Their Rivals
In this interview, Research Fellow David Berkey discusses Disruptive Strategies: The Military Campaigns of Ascendant Powers and Their Rivals (Hoover Institution Press, 2021), a compilation of historical case studies that explores what happens when a rising power, like modern China, disrupts the predominance of a hegemon, like the United States. Disruptive Strategies is a production of Hoover’s Military History Working Group.
Hoover Institution’s The War That Must Never Be Fought Argues for Nuclear Free World
The Hoover Institution Press announced that The War That Must Never Be Fought, edited by Secretary Shultz and Ambassador James Goodby, is available online at Hooverpress.org. This collection of essays challenges outdated deterrence theories, reexamines notions from the Cold War, and asserts that a world without nuclear weapons is in the best interests of the United States.
Military History Workshop Explores Great Power Rivalries
Great power rivalries are replacing the post-Cold War global order, with some nations rising while others are declining, according to Hoover Institution military historians.
Haber receives Walter J. Gores Award
Among the awards to Stanford faculty, the Walter G. Gores Award is considered the university's highest teaching honor. Stephen H. Haber, the Helen and Peter Bing Senior Fellow at Hoover and the A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in Stanford’s Department of Political Science, was the senior faculty member selected to receive the 2012 award. The Gores Award, which honors excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, will be presented at the university commencement on June 17.