Hoover Institution Press imprint: 51 books
Spin Wars and Spy Games
Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
As most long-standing news outlets have shuttered their foreign bureaus and print operations, the role of GNNs as information collectors and policy influencers has changed in tandem. Western GNNs are honored for being untethered to government entities and their ability to produce accurate yet critical...
Milton Friedman on Freedom
Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format—and an even...
Nuclear Security
The Problems and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear...
Game Changers
Energy on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel our economy and protect our national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from American universities that offer a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure...
by Angelo M. Codevilla
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to...
by Robert Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1978
This concise monograph traces Russian Marxism from its beginnings to mid-1977, shows how and why the party achieved power, how it has strengthened its position, and how it has undertaken to remold the country and to solve its internal problems. Wesson's study is the only up-to-date party history currently...
Hammer, Sickle, and Soil
The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of...
by Samuel Tadros
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Offering insights on Egypt's failed revolution—how it happened and why it did not succeed—author Samuel Tadros argues that, as Egypt continues on its destructive downward path, it is important to examine the role that its revolutionaries played in that trajectory. He raises long-unanswered questions...
Unstable Majorities
Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
America is "currently fighting its second Civil War." Partisan politics are "ripping this country apart." The 2016 election "will go down as the most acrimonious presidential campaign of all." Such statements have become standard fare in American politics. In a time marked...
Total Volunteer Force
Lessons from the US Military on Leadership Culture and Talent Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Tim Kane analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the US armed forces leadership culture and personnel management. He proposes a blueprint for reform that empowers troops as well as local commanders. Kane's proposals extend the All-Volunteer Force reforms of 1973 further along the spectrum of volunteerism,...
America and the Future of War
The Past as Prologue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Throughout the world today there are obvious trouble spots that have the potential to explode into serious conflicts at any time in the immediate or distant future. This study examines what history suggests about the future possibilities and characteristics of war and the place that thinking about...
In This Arab Time
The Pursuit of Deliverance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In this collection of bold and wide-ranging essays, Fouad Ajami offers his views on the Middle East, commenting on the state of affairs in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt and more. He brings into focus the current struggles of the region through detailed historical standpoints and a highly personal perspective....
Warriors and Citizens
American Views of Our Military
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A diverse group of contributors offer different perspectives on whether or not the different experiences of our military and the broader society amounts to a "gap"—and if the American public is losing connection to its military. They analyze extensive polling information to identify those...
by Julie Wei
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
In this book, more than forty selected writings from Sun Yat-Sen, the father of modern China, have been translated into English for the first time. Ranging from early speeches to a graduation address delivered a year before his death, these translations illustrate the depth and breadth of Sun's philosophy...