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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
The House That Stalin Built
Anyone unfamiliar with the quality of Stephen Kotkin’s four earlier books on the Soviet Union might well question whether we need a new, voluminous tome about the first fifty years of Joseph Stalin’s life. Stalin, like Hitler, has been the subject of numerous biographies, ranging from Boris Souvarine’s pioneering work to Robert C. Tucker’s multivolume study. Is there anything important to add?
Stephen Kotkin Review: Capturing The Life Of Stalin The Despot Is A Massive Undertaking
In his memoirs of the Russian revolutions of 1917, their Boswell, the ubiquitous left-winger Nikolai Sukhanov, observed Joseph Stalin as "a grey blur, emitting a dim light every now and then and not leaving any trace.
Radiolab Episode On Japanese Balloon Bombs
This is an excellent bit of radio about one of the weirder forms of attack during World War II—the only one I know of that produced casualties in the continental United States: balloon bombing.
Stalin’s Man In Spain
‘Between a Communist and a traitor there can be no relations of any kind,’ Carrillo told his father, a Socialist party member, in 1939.
The Ghastly Shadow Of Munich
The Western capitulation to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement is cited as classic appeasement that destroyed Czechoslovakia, backfired on France and Britain, and led to World War II.
Stephen Kotkin On Book Nook (1:18)
Hoover fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses his recent book on Stalin and the regime that Stalin built.
Philip Bobbitt On The John Batchelor Show
Philip Bobbitt, a member of Hoover's National Security & Law Task Force, discusses his latest book The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made.
Online Polish Collections From The Hoover Institution Archives
In the early 1990s, roughly 1.5 million documents on microfilm were transferred from the Hoover Institution to the Polish National Archives. These documents, the records of the Polish government-in-exile, had originally been entrusted to the Hoover Institution following World War II and the subjugation of Poland by the Soviet Union.
Irreconcilable Differences—Perhaps
A two-state solution could give Israel and the Palestinians the “fair divorce” they want. But it would require two willing partners, not just one.
Remembering the Lusitania
The sinking of the famed liner, torpedoed within sight of land, helped draw the United States into the war. It remains a source of fascination—and speculation.
Stalin’s Monstrous Will
The first book of Hoover fellow Stephen Kotkin’s new history of the Soviet Union presents a portrait of absolute power.
Women and the Great War
During World War I, women stepped forward to volunteer, protest, make weapons—even fight.
The Decline And Fall Of Empires
Every earlier empire, or alliance, or whatever term we want to use for the current U.S. system, eventually declined and fell, without exception.
Michael Spence At The Rimini Lecture In Economics And Finance Conference (9:20)
Hoover fellow Michael Spence discusses his book The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.
Political Islam: Will It Bury Us?
Said to have “no place in the modern world,” Islamist extremists may bury that modern world.
Lee Kuan Yew And Henry Kissinger
As the debates rage along the Potomac regarding the Iran nuclear framework, ISIS, the Ukraine crisis, the rise of Chinese power and a half dozen other important U.S. foreign policy challenges, how better to think about these problems than to seek council from the two most impressive strategists of the post World War II era – the late Lee Kuan Yew and Henry Kissinger.
Book Review: Judicial Review Of National Security By David Scharia
David Scharia is an Israeli national security lawyer with experience prosecuting Israeli terrorism cases before the Israeli courts, including service on the Attorney General of Israel’s legal staff.
Rereading Vietnam
In 1943, at the age of 18, George Everette "Bud" Day of Sioux City, Iowa, enlisted in the Marines...
Remembering A Texan's Role In Ending World War II
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Japan. Two atomic bombs named ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 in an effort to end World War II. A Texan, Major James Hopkins, piloted one of the planes on the Nagasaki mission.
The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas Of Nuclear Deterrence
Shultz, who served as U.S. secretary of state from 1982 to 1989, and Goodby, a former U.S. arms negotiator, make the case for governments to take urgent steps toward abolishing nuclear weapons.