The Hoover Institution hosted its annual Board of Overseers’ summer meeting during July 9–11, 2013.

The program began on Tuesday evening with before-dinner remarks by Paul D. Clement, a partner at Bancroft PLLC. Clement served as the forty-third solicitor general of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. He has argued more than sixty-five cases before the US Supreme Court. During Clement’s speech, titled “Federalism in the Roberts Court,” he talked about the revitalization of federalism in the Rehnquist court “imposing some limits on the federal government’s power vis-a-vis the states.”

STANFORD – Three Hoover Institution senior fellows and two distinguished associates were honored on October 12 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their collaborative and ongoing efforts to reduce the global threat of nuclear weapons.

General Richard D. Clarke (US Army) Engages Fellows on Emerging Threats and Gaining a Technological Edge Against America’s Adversaries.

STANFORD—“We have to rethink the nuclear principles on which we’ve been operating,” said Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, who spoke at a dinner on Thursday, November 11, in connection with a Hoover conference on nuclear nonproliferation titled “Deterrence: Its Past and Future.”

The first wave of Iranian migration to the United States happened decades before the 1979 Revolution; many came to the U.S. as student sojourners looking to receive an American education. Many also used the opportunity to protest and distribute information about the Shah’s political policies, social conditions in Iran, and the lived realities of American imperialism. It is from this engagement that expressions of resistance among Iranians in the United States expanded to encompass a diverse array of political leanings.

In the seventy years since its founding, the state of Israel has built all the hardware of a thriving formal democracy—institutions, procedures, and elections—but has yet to fully install the software that will allow it to emerge as a substantive democracy, argued Hoover Institution Distinguished Fellow Ayre Carmon in a discussion with SF Weekly writer Jonathan Curiel at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.

Each year, the Department of State and the five branches of the US armed forces select a small group of rising leaders from their ranks for senior-level education programs. In addition to military service schools such as the Army, Air, and Naval war colleges, the Hoover Institution is one of a handful of policy research organizations authorized to host such personnel for their year of study and professional development.

The Hoover Institution’s National Security Affairs Fellows (NSAFs) for the 2011–12 academic year have been announced by John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution.

The NSAF program offers representatives of the US military and government agencies the opportunity to conduct independent research on topics relevant to their respective branches of government and to the practice of diplomacy. Admission to the program is based on direct nominations from each governmental branch. Since the program began in 1969, more than 130 people have participated.

The Hoover Institution in Washington, the institution’s education and outreach arm located blocks from the White House, provides Hoover fellows with a platform in national policy discussions and serves as one of Washington’s preeminent information centers.