The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy

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and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and

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. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as a

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institution, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan. In 1919, the institution began as a library founded by Stanford alumnus

Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Gr ...

prior to his presidency in order to house his archives gathered during the

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. The

Hoover Tower Hoover Tower is a structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. The tower houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, an archive collection founded by Herbert Hoover before he became President of the United Stat ...

, an icon of Stanford University, was built to house the archives, then known as the Hoover War Collection (now the Hoover Institution Library and Archives), and contained material related to

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

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, and other global events. The collection was renamed and transformed into a research institution and think tank in the mid-20th century. Its mission, as described by Herbert Hoover in 1959, is "to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life." The Hoover Institution has been a place of scholarship for individuals who previously held significant positions in government. Notable Hoover fellows and alumni include

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laureates

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...

, and

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

; economist

Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell (; born June 30, 1930) is an American author, economist, political commentator and academic who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he becam ...

, scholars

Niall Ferguson Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
Niall Ferguson

and Richard Epstein, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. In 2020, former

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Condoleezza Rice became the institution's director. It divides its

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s into separate research teams to work on various subjects, including Economic Policy,

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, and

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. It publishes research through its own

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, the Hoover Institution Press. In 2021, Hoover was ranked as the 10th most influential think tank in the world by '' Academic Influence''. It was ranked 22nd on the "Top Think Tanks in United States" and 1st on the "Top Think Tanks to Look Out For" lists of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program that same year.

History

Early history

In June 1919,

, then a wealthy engineer who was one of Stanford's first graduates, sent a telegram offering Stanford president

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$50,000 in order to support the collection of primary materials related to World War I, a project that became known as the Hoover War Collection. Supported primarily by gifts from private donors, the Hoover War Collection flourished in its early years. In 1922, the collection became known as the Hoover War Library (now the Hoover Institution Library and Archives) and had collected a variety of rare and unpublished material, including the files of the '' Okhrana,'' as well as a plurality of government documents. It was originally housed in the Stanford Library, separate from the general stacks. In his memoirs, Hoover wrote:

I did a vast amount of reading, mostly on previous wars, revolutions, and peace-makings of Europe and especially the political and economic aftermaths. At one time I set up some research at London, Paris, and Berlin into previous famines in Europe to see if there had developed any ideas on handling relief and pestilence. ... I was shortly convinced that gigantic famine would follow the present war. The steady degeneration of agriculture was obvious. ... I read in one of Andrew D. White's writings that most of the fugitive literature of comment during the
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was lost to history because no one set any value on it at the time, and that without such material it became very difficult or impossible to reconstruct the real scene. Therein lay the origins of the Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

By 1926, the Hoover War Library was the largest library in the world devoted to the Great War. It contained 1.4 million items and was becoming too large to house in the Stanford Library so the university allocated $600,000 for the construction of the

, which was to be its permanent home independent of the Stanford Library system. The 285-foot tall tower was completed in 1941 on date of the university's golden jubilee. The tower has since been an icon of the Stanford campus.

Expansion and later history

In 1956, former President Hoover, under the auspices of the Institution and Library, launched a major fundraising campaign that transitioned the organization to its current form as a think tank and archive. In 1957, the Hoover Institution and Library was renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace—the name it holds today. In 1959 Stanford's Board of Trustees officially established the Hoover Institution as "an independent institution within the frame of Stanford University." In 1960, W. Glenn Campbell was appointed director and substantial budget increases soon led to corresponding increases in acquisitions and related research projects. In particular, the Chinese and Russian collections grew considerably. Despite student unrest in the 1960s, the institution continued to develop closer relations with Stanford.

Reagan governorship (1967–1975) and presidency (1981–1989)

In 1975, Ronald Reagan, who was Governor of California at that time, was designated as Hoover’s first honorary fellow. He donated his gubernatorial papers to the Hoover library. During that time the Hoover Institution held a general budget of $3.5 million a year. In 1976, one third of Stanford University's book holdings were housed at the Hoover library. At that time, it was the largest private archive collection in the United States. For his presidential campaign in 1980, Reagan engaged at least thirteen Hoover scholars to support the campaign in multiple capacities. After Reagan won the election campaign, more than thirty current or former Hoover Institution fellows worked for the Reagan administration in 1981. In 1989, Campbell retired as director of Hoover and replaced by John Raisian, a change that was seen as the end of an era. Raisan served as director until 2015, and was succeeded by Thomas W. Gilligan. George W. Bush administration (2001–2009) President George W. Bush awarded the

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to the Hoover Institution in 2006. 160919-D-SK590-091 (29170239914)

Trump administration (2017–2021)

The

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maintained close ties with the institution and multiple Hoover affiliates were assigned top positions in government.

Scott Atlas Scott William Atlas (born July 5, 1955) is an American radiologist, political commentator, and health care policy advisor. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a conservative t ...

, one Hoover fellow, was known for pushing against public health measures as a top Trump advisor in the

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, and was condemned in a Stanford faculty vote. In August 2017 the David and Joan Traitel Building was inaugurated. The ground floor is a conference center with a 400-seat

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and the top floor houses the Hoover Institution's headquarters. In 2020, Condoleezza Rice succeeded Thomas W. Gilligan as director.

Present

At any given time the Hoover Institution has up to 200 resident scholars known as Fellows. They are an interdisciplinary group studying political science, education, economics, foreign policy, energy, history, law, national security, health and politics. Some hold joint appointments as lecturers on the Stanford faculty. During Stanford University faculty senate discussions on closer collaboration between the university and the Institution in 2021, Rice "addressed campus criticism that the Hoover Institution is a partisan think tank that primarily supports conservative administrations and policy positions" by sharing "statistics that show Hoover fellows contribute financially to both political parties on an equal basis", according to the university's newsletter.

Campus

The Institution has libraries which include materials from both the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and

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, including the collection of documents of President Hoover, which he began to collect at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Thousands of

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books, official documents, letters, multimedia pieces and other materials on

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's history, politics and culture can also be found at the Stanford University library and the Hoover Institution library.

Publications

The Hoover Institution's in-house publisher, Hoover Institution Press, produces publications on public policy topics, including the quarterly periodicals ''Hoover Digest'', ''Education Next'', ''China Leadership Monitor'', and ''Defining Ideas''. The Hoover Institution Press previously published the bimonthly periodical '' Policy Review'', which it acquired from

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in 2001. ''Policy Review'' ceased publication with its February–March 2013 issue. The Hoover Institution Press also publishes books and essays by Hoover Institution fellows and other Hoover-affiliated scholars.

Funding

The Hoover Institution receives nearly half of its funding from private gifts, primarily from individual contributions, and the other half from its endowment. Funders of the organization include the Taube Family Foundation, the

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, the Howard Charitable Foundation, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the William E. Simon Foundation.

Details

Funding sources and expenditures, FY 2018:

Members

In May 2018, the Hoover Institution's website listed 198 fellows. Below is a list of directors and some of the more prominent fellows, former and current.

Directors

* Ephraim D. Adams, 1920–25 * Ralph H. Lutz, 1925–44 * Harold H. Fisher, 1944–52 * C. Easton Rothwell, 1952–59
W. Glenn Campbell
1960–89
John Raisian
1989–2015 * Thomas W. Gilligan, 2015–September 2020 * Condoleezza Rice, September 2020–Present

Honorary Fellows

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...

, former

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(deceased) * Ronald Reagan, former

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(deceased) *

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repres ...

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and Nobel laureate in literature (deceased) *

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...

, philosopher and Nobel laureate in economics (deceased)

Distinguished Fellows

George P. Shultz George Pratt Shultz (; December 13, 1920February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held fou ...

, former

(deceased)

Senior Fellows

Fouad Ajami Fouad A. Ajami ( ar, فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Ho ...

, political scientist, former director of the Middle East Studies Program at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

(deceased) *

, health care policy scholar and physician, former professor and former Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University School of Medicine * Richard V. Allen, former U.S. National Security Advisor * Martin Anderson, former advisor to Richard Nixon and author of ''The Federal Bulldozer'' (deceased) *

Robert Barro Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas, J ...

, economist * Lee Ohanion, economist *

Gary S. Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

, 1992 Nobel laureate in economics (deceased) * Joseph Berger, theoretical sociologist * Peter Berkowitz, political scientist *

Russell Berman Russell A. Berman (born May 14, 1950) is an American academic and professor specializing in German studies and Comparative literature. He serves as the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow ...

, professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature * Michael Boskin, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H. W. Bush * David W. Brady, political scientist *

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (; born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Biography Bueno de Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in ...

, political scientist, professor at

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* Elizabeth Cobbs, historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker * John H. Cochrane, economist * William Damon, professor of education *

Larry Diamond Larry Jay Diamond (born October 2, 1951) is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanf ...

, political scientist, professor at Stanford University * Frank Dikötter, chair professor of humanities at the

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* Sidney Drell, theoretical physicist and arms control expert (deceased) * Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business * John B. Dunlop, expert on Soviet and Russian politics * Richard A. Epstein, legal scholar * Martin Feldstein, senior fellow at the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at

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Niall Ferguson Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
Niall Ferguson

, historian, professor at

* Chester E. Finn, Jr., professor of education * Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist *

, 1976 Nobel laureate in economics (deceased) *

Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a spe ...

, historian, columnist for ''

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'' *

Jack Goldsmith Jack Landman Goldsmith III (born September 26, 1962) is an American legal scholar. He is a professor at Harvard Law School who has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and na ...

, legal scholar *

Stephen Haber Stephen H. Haber (born July 12, 1957) is a professor of political science and history known for his work on the political institutions and economic policies that promote innovation and improvements in living standards. Haber is a professor in the ...

, economic historian and political scientist * Robert Hall, economist *

Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for ''The New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ...

, classicist, military historian, columnist *

Eric Hanushek Eric Alan Hanushek (; born May 22, 1943) is an economist who has written prolifically on public policy with a special emphasis on the economics of education. Since 2000, he has been a Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a ...

, economist * David R. Henderson, economist * Caroline Hoxby, economist * Bobby Ray Inman, retired admiral * Shanto Iyengar, professor of political science, and director of the Political Communication Laboratory at Stanford University * Ken Jowitt, historian * Kenneth L. Judd, economist *

Daniel P. Kessler Daniel P. Kessler is an American academic whose work focuses on health policy and health care finance. He is currently a professor in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a professor of law at Stanford Law School. Additionall ...

, scholar of health policy and health care finance * Stephen D. Krasner, international relations professor *

Edward Lazear Edward Paul Lazear (, ; August 17, 1948November 23, 2020) was an American economist, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Davies Family Professor of Economics at Stanford Grad ...

, economist * Gary D. Libecap, Bren Professor of Corporate Environmental Policy and of Donald R. Bren School of Environmental Science *

Seymour Martin Lipset Seymour Martin Lipset ( ; March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist (President of the American Political Science Association). His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union o ...

, political sociologist (deceased) *

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, political scientist *

Michael W. McConnell Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955) is an American constitutional law scholar who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 to 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has been a ...

, legal scholar, former judge, professor at Stanford University *

Michael McFaul Michael Anthony McFaul (born October 1, 1963) is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. McFaul is currently the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studi ...

, political scientist, United States Ambassador to Russia * H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor * Thomas Metzger, sinologist * James C. Miller III, economist * Terry M. Moe, professor of political science at Stanford University * Kevin M. Murphy, economist * Norman Naimark, historian * Douglass North, 1993 Nobel laureate in economics (deceased) * William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense * Paul E. Peterson, scholar on education reform * Alvin Rabushka, political scientist * Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the

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's Booth School * Condoleezza Rice, former

* Henry Rowen, economist (deceased) * Thomas J. Sargent, 2011 Nobel laureate in economics, professor at New York University * Robert Service, historian *

John Shoven John B. Shoven (born May 24, 1947) is the former Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University, the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover ...

, economist * Abraham David Sofaer, scholar, former legal advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State *

, economist, author, columnist * Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel laureate in economics * Richard F. Staar, political scientist, historian * Shelby Steele, author, columnist *

John B. Taylor John Brian Taylor (born December 8, 1946) is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He taught at Columbia Univer ...

, former U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs * Barry R. Weingast, political scientist *

Bertram Wolfe Bertram David Wolfe (January 19, 1896 – February 21, 1977) was an American scholar, leading communist, and later a leading anti-communist. He authored many works related to communism, including biographical studies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph ...

, author, scholar, former communist, (deceased; 1896–1977) * Amy Zegart, political scientist

Research Fellows

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali (; ; Somali: ''Ayaan Xirsi Cali'':'' Ayān Ḥirsī 'Alī;'' born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, ar, أيان حرسي علي / ALA-LC: ''Ayān Ḥirsī 'Alī'' 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist and former politicia ...

, author, scholar and former politician *

Clint Bolick Clint Bolick (born December 26, 1957) is a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. Previously, he served as Vice President of Litigation at the conservative/libertarian Goldwater Institute. He co-founded the libertarian Institute for Justice, whe ...

, Associate Justice of the

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Lanhee Chen Lanhee Joseph Chen (; ; born July 4, 1978) is an American policy advisor, attorney, and academic. Chen serves as the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution, director of domestic policy studies and ...

, political scientist, health policy expert, former policy director for Mitt Romney *

Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British historian and poet. A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books ...

, historian (deceased) * David Davenport, former president of

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Williamson Evers Williamson M. "Bill" Evers (born October 18, 1948) is an American libertarian activist and education researcher. In 1988, he became a resident scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution first as a national fellow, then as a visiting sch ...

, education researcher * Paul R. Gregory, Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the

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, former federal prosecutor, judge, special assistant to the president, and senior director for the National Security Council * Charles Hill, lecturer in International Studies *

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, economist *

Herbert S. Klein Herbert S. Klein (born January 6, 1936) is an American historian. He is the Gouveneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. In February 2020 the El Colegio de México awarded the Alfonso Reyes International Prize to Herbe ...

, historian * Tod Lindberg, foreign policy expert * Alice L. Miller, political scientist *

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, former deputy attorney general of Israel * Abbas Milani, political scientist * Henry I. Miller, physician * Elena Pastorino, economist *

Russell Roberts Russell David "Russ" Roberts (born September 19, 1954) is an American economist, who is currently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and president designate of Shalem College in Jerusalem. He is known for communicating e ...

, economist, author *

Kori Schake Kori N. Schake ( ; born 1962) is the Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She has held several high positions in the U.S. Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council. She was a foreign ...

, foreign policy expert, author * Kiron Skinner, associate professor of international relations and political science, author * Peter Schweizer, author (former fellow) *

Antony C. Sutton Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 – June 17, 2002) was a British-American writer, researcher, economist, and professor. Early life and education Antony C. Sutton was born in London on February 14, 1925 to Edward Ceril Sutton and Marjorie ...

, author of ''Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development'' (3 vol), fellow from 1968 to 1973 *

Bruce Thornton Bruce S. Thornton (born August 2, 1953) is an American classicist at California State University, Fresno, and research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Biography Thornton received a Bachelor of Arts in Latin from the Univers ...

, American classicist * Tunku Varadarajan, writer and journalist

Distinguished Visiting Fellows

* John Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command (former fellow) *

Spencer Abraham Edward Spencer Abraham (born June 12, 1952) is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as the tenth United States Secretary of Energy from 2001 to 2005, under President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Abraham pr ...

, former U.S. Senator and

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(former fellow) * Pedro Aspe, Mexican economist, former secretary of finance * Michael R. Auslin, American writer, policy analyst, historian, and Asia expert * Michael D. Bordo, Canadian economist, professor of economics at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

Charles Calomiris Charles William Calomiris (born November 8, 1957) is an American financial policy expert, author, and professor at Columbia Business School, where he is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions and the Director of Columbia Business Scho ...

, financial policy expert, author, and professor at Columbia Business School *

Arye Carmon Arye Carmon ( he, אריה כרמון, b. 1943) is the Founding President and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). He helped to found the institute in 1991 as an independent think tank dedicated to promoting and strengthening de ...

, Founding President and senior fellow at the

Israel Democracy Institute Israel Democracy Institute (IDI; he, המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה), established in 1991, is an independent center of research and action dedicated to strengthening the foundations of Israeli democracy. It is located in Jerusalem, ...

(IDI) * Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations * James O. Ellis, former commander,

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* James Goodby, author and former American diplomat * Jim Hoagland, American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize *

Toomas Hendrik Ilves Toomas Hendrik Ilves (; born 26 December 1953) is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the ...

, former President of Estonia * Raymond Jeanloz, professor of

earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

and planetary science and of

astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and evolution. Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, g ...

* Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the German newspaper '' Die Zeit'' *

, former

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in the administrations of presidents

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

and Gerald Ford * James Mattis, former commander, U.S. Central Command and former Secretary of Defense * Allan H. Meltzer, American economist * Edwin Meese, former U.S. Attorney General *

David C. Mulford David Campbell Mulford (born 27 June 1937) was the United States Ambassador to India from January 23, 2004 to February 2009, and served as Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse from 2009 to 2016. He is currently a distinguished visiting fel ...

, former United States Ambassador to India, former Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse *

Joseph Nye Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism, which they developed in their 1977 book ''Power and Interdependence''. Togethe ...

, American political scientist, co-founder of the

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

theory of

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Sam Nunn Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Georgia (1972–1997) as a member of the Democratic Party. After leaving Congress, Nunn co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initia ...

, former

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from

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George Osborne George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born Gideon Oliver Osborne; 23 May 1971) is a former British politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and as First Secretary of State from 2015 to 2016 in the ...

, British Conservative Party politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former

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(MP) for Tatton * Andrew Roberts, British historian and journalist,

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at the

Department of War Studies, King's College London The Department of War Studies (DWS) is an academic department in the School of Security Studies within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London in London, United Kingdom. Along with other politics and international ...

* Peter M. Robinson, American author,

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television host, former speechwriter for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan * Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations * Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense (deceased) * Christopher Stubbs, an

experimental physicist Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments and ...

* William Suter, former

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Kevin Warsh Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970) is an American financier and bank executive who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011. During and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Warsh acted as th ...

, former governor of the

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Pete Wilson Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 36th governor of California from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as a United States senator from California betw ...

, former Governor of California

Visiting Fellows

Alexander Benard Alexander Benard is an American private equity investor and lawyer. Early life and education Benard grew up in the U.S. and in Austria. He holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College and a JD from Stanford Law School. Career Benard is a Senior ...

, American businessman, lawyer, and commentator on

U.S. public policy The policies of the United States of America comprise all actions taken by its federal government. The executive branch is the primary entity through which policies are enacted, however the policies are derived from a collection of laws, execut ...

* Charles Blahous, U.S. public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare programs *

Robert J. Hodrick Robert James Hodrick (born September 12, 1950), is a U.S. economist specialized in International Finance. AB, Princeton, 1972; PhD, University of Chicago, 1976. Until 1983, he served as a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he worked ...

, U.S. economist specialized in International Finance *

Markos Kounalakis Markos Kounalakis ( el, Μάρκος Κουναλάκης; born December 1, 1956) is an American syndicated journalist and scholar who is the second gentleman of California as the husband of lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis. Kounalakis wri ...

, Greek-American journalist, author, scholar, and the Second Gentleman of

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

* Bjorn Lomborg, Danish author, president of

Copenhagen Consensus Center The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a US non-profit think tank based in Lowell, Massachusetts, founded and headed by Bjørn Lomborg. The Center organizes the Copenhagen Consensus, a conference of prominent economists held every four years, where p ...

Ellen R. McGrattan Ellen McGrattan is an American macroeconomist who is Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and past director of the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute, and consults for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. McGrattan's profes ...

, professor of economics at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

Afshin Molavi Afshin Molavi ( fa, افشین مولوی) is an Iranian-American author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics, particularly the Middle East and Asia. He is co-director of the Emerge85 Lab, a joint research initiative between ...

, Iranian-American author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics * Charles I. Plosser, former president of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia — also known as the Philadelphia Fed or the Philly Fed — headquartered at 10 Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is responsible for the Third District of the Federal Reserve, which covers ...

* Raj Shah, former White House Deputy Press Secretary, former

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Alex Stamos Alex Stamos is a Greek American computer scientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is the former chief security officer (CSO) at Facebook. His planned departure from the compan ...

, computer scientist, former chief security officer at

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John Yoo John Choon Yoo (; born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official who serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Yoo became known for his legal opinions ...

, Korean-American attorney, law professor, former government official, author *

Glennys Young Glennys Young is a professor of history and the chair of the history department at the University of Washington. She also is a professor of Russian studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and is affiliated with University ...

, American international relations scholar

Media Fellows

* Tom Bethell, journalist *

Sam Dealey Sam Dealey is an American journalist and media consultant, and the former Editor of ''The Washington Times''. He is currently managing principal at Monument Communications, a media fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a board member at the Am ...

, journalist, former editor-in-chief of ''

Washington Times ''The Washington Times'' is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout ...

'' *

Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature. Born and educated in England, ...

, journalist (deceased) *

Deroy Murdock Deroy Murdock (born 1963) is an American political commentator and a contributing editor with ''National Review Online''. A native of Los Angeles, Murdock lives in New York City. A first-generation American, his parents were born in Costa Rica. ...

, journalist * Mike Pride, editor emeritus of the ''

Concord Monitor The ''Concord Monitor'' is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire. It also covers surrounding towns in Merrimack County, most of Belknap County, as well as portions of Grafton, Rockingham and Hillsborough counties ...

'' and former administrator of the

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Christopher Ruddy Christopher Ruddy (born January 28, 1965) is an American journalist who is the CEO and majority owner of Newsmax Media. Background Ruddy grew up on Long Island in Williston Park, New York, where his father was a police officer in Nassau County. ...

, CEO of Newsmax Media

National Fellows

* Mark Bils, macroeconomist, National Fellow 1989–90 *

Stephen Kotkin Stephen Mark Kotkin (born February 17, 1959) is an American historian, academic, and author. He is currently the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he is also co-director of the pro ...

, historian, National Fellow 2010–11

Senior Research Fellows

John H. Bunzel John Harvey Bunzel was an American academic. He served as president of San Jose State University from 1970 to 1978 and was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1978. He was formerly a member of the United States Commission on ...

, expert in the field of civil rights, race relations, higher education, US politics, and elections (deceased) *

Robert Hessen Robert Hessen (born 1936) is an American economic and business historian. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is an Objectivist and has ...

, historian *

James Stockdale James Bond "Jim" Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator, awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years. Stockdale was the mos ...

, Navy Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, 1992 US vice presidential candidate (deceased) * Charles Wolf, Jr, economist (deceased) *

Edward Teller Edward Teller ( hu, Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care for ...

, physicist (deceased)

Footnotes

References

External links

* *
hoover.org/hila
the Hoover Institution Library and Archives official website
hooverpress.org
the Hoover Institution Press's official website
definingideas.org
a Hoover Institution online journal

(provided by RePEc) *
advancingafreesociety.org
the Hoover Institution's blog of research and opinion on current policy matters
Video of Hoover Institution events and ''Uncommon Knowledge''
at YouTube
Video of Hoover Institution events
at FORA.tv
Hoover Institution FBI files
hosted at the

Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ...

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Expansion and later history

Reagan governorship (1967–1975) and presidency (1981–1989)

Trump administration (2017–2021)

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