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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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The Maritime Middle East And Challenges For American Strategy
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The Middle East: A Seaward Imperative
Indo-Pacific
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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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On The Verge Of Losing $4 Billion In Federal Funds, High Speed Rail Should Have Been Stopped Long Ago
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The California Governor’s Race: Where The Stars Don’t Shine
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Uncommon Knowledge | Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

The Signal In The Noise: Speaker Mike Johnson On Elon, The Big Beautiful Bill, And “Our Chance To Save Our Country”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on the contentious passage of the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping budget reconciliation measure crafted to implement core elements of the Trump agenda.

Free Speech Unmuted

Free Speech, Public School Students, And “There Are Only Two Genders”

The Supreme Court just declined to consider a federal appeals court case that led a public school to punish a student for wearing a T-shirt saying “There Are Only Two Genders.” Did the lower court get that right?

China Considered

Axis, Rivalry, Or Chaos? The US-China-Russia Equation With Michael McFaul

Elizabeth Economy talks with Michael McFaul to discuss the US-Russia-China relationship and his experiences as the former US ambassador to Russia.

Matters of Policy & Politics | Tariffs

Trump Tariff Outcomes: Is The “Less-Worse” Case A Best-Case Scenario?

What’s the most likely outcome for President Trump’s tariff strategy – trading partners capitulating, America’s economy and exceptionalism crumbling, or something in the middle? 

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.

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In the aftermath of Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leadership, the question moving forward is

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