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Seeking to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.

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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Offers Policymakers New Insights Into Implications Of Cutting-Edge Tech
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Changing The Landscape For New Nuclear Power
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A Fresh Look At The Russian Assets: A Proposal For International Resolution Of Sanctioned Accounts
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Ours to Solve - Once, and For All | Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
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Economic Statecraft: The Need For An Integrated Approach
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American Federalism Today
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A Nation At Risk +40

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Getting Global Monetary Policy On Track Advises Central Banks And Governments On How They Can Better Control Inflation
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2025 Hoover Programs

Applications are now open for 2025 Hoover programs. For more information, click the links below.

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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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The Prospects For Peace In Ukraine
Strategika Issue 97
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The Strategic And Military Pathways To A Peaceful Ukrainian Settlement
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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From October 7 To The Gaza Plan
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The Syrian Non-Catastrophe
By Richard Outzen

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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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California Homelessness Rises To 187,000, Perhaps Many More, Despite $37 Billion Spent
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Did The Governor Reidentify Or Not?
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Capitalism & Freedom

Monetary Policy And The Indian Economy With Raghuram Rajan (Former Governor Of Reserve Bank Of India)

Jon Hartley and Raghuram Rajan discuss Raghuram’s research, his roles as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chief Economic Adviser, India’s inflation targeting, predicting the 2008 financial crisis, economic growth, and the legacy of his book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.

Matters of Policy & Politics

Achieving Geopolitical Objectives: Andrew Grotto On American “Economic Statecraft”

How “economic statecraft” applies to settling the current wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as America’s “great power competition” with China.

Matters of Policy and Politics with Michael Hartney

Michael Hartney On The Federal Role In Education, Outcomes V. Totems, And Union Clout

President Trump’s signing of an executive order calling for the downsizing of the US Department of Education (DOE) raises concerns related to the federal versus state balance in K-12 policy.

Uncommon Knowledge

Conflict: Niall Ferguson On Ukraine, Taiwan, And His War Of Words With V. P. Vance

Niall Ferguson, preeminent historian, discuss the war and ongoing stalemate in Ukraine; the Trump administration’s foreign policy and negotiations with Russia; and the broader geopolitical landscape, including the shift in Europe’s defense posture as the US signals a reduced commitment to NATO.

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A World-Class Library & Archives

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.

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Exhibitions | Now On View

The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.

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Research Services

Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.

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The Collections

Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.

Digital First Initiative

Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.

Engagement & Outreach

Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.

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