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A Deep Peek Into DeepSeek AI’s Talent And Implications For US Innovation
By Amy Zegart, Emerson Johnston

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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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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
American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance  by Michael J. Boskin (ed.)
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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

Hoover hosts annual programs for students and international foreign and defense policy professionals. 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
Strategika Issue 97
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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
Homelessness
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Is California In Musk’s Train Of Thought?
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Capitalism & Freedom

Fiscal Scoring With Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel

Jon Hartley and Phillip Swagel discuss Phill’s career as an academic economist, his time in economic policy, why the CBO is important in the budget policy process, current law versus current policy baselines, dynamic scoring versus static scoring, the accuracy of CBO scores, CBO modeling, as well as CBO model transparency.

Economics, Applied

Trade Policy Rupture

Donald Trump is disrupting U.S. trade policy as never before. His tariff gyrations are roiling financial markets, raising the prospects of recession, and alarming allies. Tune in as Steve discusses the economic and geopolitical consequences with two outstanding experts on trade policy.

Free Speech Unmuted | Hardvard v Trump

Harvard V. Trump: Free Speech And Government Grants

Jane and Eugene discuss the Administration’s freezing of grants to Harvard, and Harvard’s lawsuit challenging the freeze.

Battlegrounds

Belarus: Opposition And The Fight For Freedom

In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya discuss the Belarusian opposition, her fight for freedom, and the importance of countering Russian aggression in Europe.

Library & Archives
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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.

Poll

This week includes an annual gathering at the Circus Maximus to celebrate the founding of ancient Rome. The most concerning parallel between the past Rome and present-day America

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