Hoover Institution Press: 227 books
by Jeremy Carl, David Fedor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor discuss the decline of American nuclear power in light of major economic, technological and political challenges. They show how high costs, low public support, and popular clean energy trends threaten America's...
Energy Efficiency
Building a Clean, Secure Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The entire world, especially the United States, is in the midst of an energy revolution. Since the oil embargo of 1973, individuals, corporations, and other organizations have found ways to economically reduce energy use. In this book, Jim Sweeney examines the energy policies and practices of the...
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...
Eyes on Spies
Congress and the United States Intelligence Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress—the institution, not the parties or personalities—showing...
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...
The Economics of Forced Labor
The Soviet Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.
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,...