Bøger udgivet af Hoover Institution Press,U.S.

When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings all converge on the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.

The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In these essays he offers his thoughts on his imprisonment.

This collection of essays examines the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and to move toward the Reykjavik goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons. The distinguished group of contributors includes former officials of the past six US administrations along with senior scholar and scientific experts on nuclear issues.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans had thriving societies based on governing structures and property rights that encouraged productivity and trade. These traditional economies were crippled by federal law. This book provides the knowledge for tribes trapped in 'white tape' to revitalize their economies and communities.

Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The transcripts reveal what was said on a wide range of topics, including free markets, monetary reform, wage policy, the future of Germany, and liberalism, and more.

Discusses the future of the Middle East in our new, post-imperialist era. For each and every country and for the region as a whole, this explains, there is a range of alternative futures: at one end, cooperation and progress; at the other, a vicious circle of poverty and ignorance.

In her memoirs, Helena Paderewska, wife of the celebrated pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, tells a story that represents a rare example of a woman's documenting the world of international politics during the Great War and its immediate aftermath.

Washington is at crossroads on education policy. It can continue down the path of top-down accountability or rethink the fundamentals and do something different. Choice and Federalism proposes a new path in which Washington unleashes the ability of parents to engage in informed choices of schools and by causes those choices to generate competitive pressures on the providers of education services.

The commander or chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. This in-depth, comparative study on the role and performance of the IDF chiefs of staff throughout modern Israel's history offers lessons for practitioners and students of strategy, military history and leadership everywhere.

Brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.

Most current climate policies require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Terry Anderson brings together essays by nine policy analysts who argue that adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy.

Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya Cameron.

Maintaining that the status quo is unacceptable, the authors of this volume take a forward-thinking look at how choice, competition, deregulation, and decentralization can create disruptive innovation and reform education for all students.

What happens when a rising power disrupts a dominant state's supremacy? Historians examine a range of past military conflicts - as well as a hypothetical future clash between the United States and China - to discover how hegemons and their challengers have failed or succeeded in their ambitions to come out on top.

From 1917 to 1920, as the Bolsheviks consolidated power and nursed global ambitions, anti-Bolshevik 'Whites' struggled to achieve a different vision for the future of Russia. This book illuminates the White campaign with fresh purpose and information from the Hoover Institution Archives.

In 1945, with events fresh in his mind, Jerzy Kwiatkowski sat down to describe his sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp - everything he endured and witnessed. Translated into English for the first time, and illustrated with rare archival images, this historical record and its insights are now available to a wider audience.

Sidney Drell left a legacy worthy of many lifetimes -physicist, professor, national security expert, amateur musician, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and champion for peace and human rights, he was also friend and mentor. Dozens of interviews with those whose lives he touched reveal Drell as a man of brilliance, curiosity, and passions.

Examines a range of issues shaping our present and future, region by region. Concrete proposals address migration, reversing the decline of K-12 education, updating the social safety net, maintaining economic productivity, protecting our democratic processes, improving national security, and more.

Provides a history of Bulgarian comunism from the days of Dimitur Blagoev, a member of the first Marxist group in Russia and a founder of Bulgarian communism, to Todor Zhivkov, the head of the BCP from 1954 until its near demise in 1989.

Today, American "rugged individualism" is in a fight for its life on two battlegrounds: in the policy realm and in the intellectual world of ideas that may lead to new policies. In this book, the authors look at the political context in which rugged individualism flourishes or declines and offer a balanced assessment of its future prospects.

The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia.

In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective. This translated volume brings a transnational perspective to this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.

As the Federal Reserve System conducts its latest review of the strategies, tools, and communication practices it deploys to pursue its dual-mandate goals of maximum employment and price stability, this book emerges as an especially timely volume. It examines key policy issues, offering perspectives on US monetary policy tools and instruments.

Examines key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. Michael Auslin also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century to today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region.

Considers how digital misinformation might affect the likelihood of international conflict and how it might influence the perceptions and actions of leaders and their publics before and during a crisis. The authors sound the alarm about how social media fuels information overload and promotes 'fast thinking' over deliberation.

In late 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover decided to distil from his experiences a coherent understanding of the American experiment he cherished. The result was the 1922 book American Individualism. In it, Hoover expounded and vigorously defended what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique.