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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy
Public policy (law)

Public policy is the body of principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state . This addresses the social, moral and economic values that tie a society together: values that vary in different cultures and change over time....
 think tank
Think tank

A think tank is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues, industrial or business policies, or military advice....
 and library
Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
 founded in 1919 by future U.S. president Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
.

The Hoover Institution is located on the campus of Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, Hoover's alma mater. The Institution houses a large archive related to President Hoover, World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, and World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. As a think tank, the Hoover Institution is host to academic activity related to the basic tenets for which it stands: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.

The Hoover Institution is influential in the American conservative
Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
 and libertarian
Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a term used by a political spectrum of Political philosophy which seek to promote individual liberty and seek to minimize or abolish the state....
 movements.






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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy
Public policy (law)

Public policy is the body of principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state . This addresses the social, moral and economic values that tie a society together: values that vary in different cultures and change over time....
 think tank
Think tank

A think tank is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues, industrial or business policies, or military advice....
 and library
Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
 founded in 1919 by future U.S. president Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
.

The Hoover Institution is located on the campus of Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, Hoover's alma mater. The Institution houses a large archive related to President Hoover, World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, and World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. As a think tank, the Hoover Institution is host to academic activity related to the basic tenets for which it stands: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.

The Hoover Institution is influential in the American conservative
Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
 and libertarian
Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a term used by a political spectrum of Political philosophy which seek to promote individual liberty and seek to minimize or abolish the state....
 movements. The Institution has long been a place of scholarship for high-profile conservatives with government experience. A number of Hoover Institution fellows had connections to or held positions in the Bush administration
George W. Bush administration

The Presidency of George W. Bush began on his George W. Bush 2001 presidential inauguration on January 20, 2001 as the 43rd President of the United States....
 and other Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
 administrations. High-profile conservatives Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese

Edwin "Ed" Meese III served as the seventy-fifth United States Attorney General of the United States ....
, Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice was the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President of the United States George W....
, George Shultz, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell , is an United States economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective....
, Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele is an United States author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action....
, and Amy Zegart
Amy Zegart

Amy Zegart is a tenured Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Her primary area of focus is national security policy....
 are all Hoover Institution fellows. Retired U.S. Army gen. John P. Abizaid
John Abizaid

John Philip Abizaid is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the CENTCOM , overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South Asia and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East....
, former commander of the U.S. Central Command, was recently named the Institution's first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow.

Mission statement

Herbert Hoover's 1959 statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University on the purpose of the Hoover Institution continues to guide its ideology and define its activities:

This Institution supports the Constitution of the United States, its Bill of Rights and its method of representative government. Both our social and economic systems are based on private enterprise from which springs initiative and ingenuity.... Ours is a system where the Federal Government should undertake no governmental, social or economic action, except where local government, or the people, cannot undertake it for themselves.... The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not be, a mere library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution itself must constantly and dynamically point the road to peace, to personal freedom, and to the safeguards of the American system.

According to the Hoover Institution's website : "By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals."

History


In 1919, Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
 donated $50,000 to Stanford University to support the collection of primary materials related to World War I, a project that became known as the Hoover War Collection. Supported primarily by gifts from private donors, the Hoover War Collection flourished in its early years. In 1922, the Collection became known as the Hoover War Library. The Hoover War Library was housed in the Stanford Library, separate from the general stacks. By 1926, the Hoover War Library was known as the largest library in the world devoted to the Great War. By 1929, it contained 1.4 million items and was becoming too large to house in the Stanford Library. In 1938, the War Library revealed building plans for Hoover Tower
Hoover Tower

Hoover Tower is a structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. The tower is part of the Hoover Institution, a research center founded by former United States president Herbert Hoover....
, which was to be its permanent home independent of the Stanford Library system. The tower was completed in 1941, Stanford University's fiftieth anniversary.

By 1946, the agenda of the Hoover War Library had expanded to include research activities; thus the organization was renamed the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution and Peace. At this time, Herbert Hoover was living in New York City but remained integrally involved in the Hoover Institute and Library as a benefactor, fundraiser, and consultant.

In 1956 Herbert Hoover, under the auspices of the Institute and Library, launched a major fundraising campaign that allowed the Institute to realize its current form as a think tank and archive. In 1957, the Hoover Institute and Library was renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace—the name it holds today.

Members

Below is a list of Hoover Institution directors and prominent fellows, former and current.

Directors

  • Ehpraim D. Adams, 1920–1925
  • Ralph H. Lutz, 1925–1944
  • Harold H. Fisher, 1944–1952
  • C. Easton Rothwell, 1952–1959
  • W. Glenn Campbell, 1960–1989
  • John Raisian, 1989–


Honorary Fellows

  • Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
    , former prime minister of the United Kingdom
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

    The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom and the head of government Her Majesty's Government....
     


Distinguished Fellows

  • George P. Shultz
    George P. Shultz

    George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the United States Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989....
    , former U.S. Secretary of State
    United States Secretary of State

    The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's United States Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in United States presidential line of succession and United States order of precedence....
     


Senior Fellows

  • Richard V. Allen
    Richard V. Allen

    Richard Vincent Allen was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982.Allen received his B.A. and M.A....
    , former U.S. national security adviser
    National Security Advisor

    A National Security Advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. He or she is not usually a member of the Cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils....
  • Gary S. Becker, 1992 Nobel
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     laureate in economics
  • Michael Boskin
    Michael Boskin

    Michael Jay Boskin is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He also is Chief Executive Officer and President of Boskin & Co., an economic consulting company....
    , chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
    Council of Economic Advisers

    The Council of Economic Advisers is a group of three respected economists who advise the President of the United States on economic policy. It is a part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and provides much of the economics policy of the White House....
     under President George H. W. Bush
    George H. W. Bush

    George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
  • Niall Ferguson
    Niall Ferguson

    Niall Ferguson is a British historian. He specialises in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is the Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School....
    , historian, professor at Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
  • Morris P. Fiorina
    Morris P. Fiorina

    Morris P. Fiorina is an American political scientist and co-author of the book Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America with Samuel J Abrams and Jeremy C....
    , political scientist
  • Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman

    Milton Friedman was an United States economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
    , 1976 Nobel
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     laureate in economics
  • Timothy Garton Ash
    Timothy Garton Ash

    Timothy Garton Ash Order of St Michael and St George, is the British people author of eight books of political writing or ?history of the present? which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century....
    , historian, columnist for The Guardian
    The Guardian

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  • Victor Davis Hanson
    Victor Davis Hanson

    Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, notable as a scholar of ancient warfare....
    , classicist, military historian, columnist
  • Eric Hanushek
    Eric Hanushek

    Eric Alan Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and an expert on education policy. His main area of interest is the economics of education, focusing on controversial areas of education policy including the class size reduction, high stakes accountability, and the importance of teach...
    , economist
  • Ken Jowitt
    Ken Jowitt

    Kenneth "Ken" Jowitt is an United States political scientist. He is currently the Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, positions he has held since 2001 and 1995 respectively....
    , historian
  • Kenneth L. Judd
    Kenneth Judd

    Kenneth Lewis "Ken" Judd is a computational economics at Stanford University, where he is associated with the Hoover Institution. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1980....
    , economist
  • William J. Perry, former U.S. secretary of defense
    United States Secretary of Defense

    File:USSecDefflag.PNGThe United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense , concerned with the Military of the United States and Military of the United States....
  • Condoleezza Rice
    Condoleezza Rice

    Condoleezza Rice was the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President of the United States George W....
    , former U.S. secretary of state
    United States Secretary of State

    The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's United States Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in United States presidential line of succession and United States order of precedence....
  • Thomas Sowell
    Thomas Sowell

    Thomas Sowell , is an United States economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective....
    , economist, author, columnist
  • Shelby Steele
    Shelby Steele

    Shelby Steele is an United States author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action....
    , author, columnist
  • John B. Taylor
    John B. Taylor

    John Brian Taylor is an economics professor at Stanford University.Born in Yonkers, New York, he earned his A.B. from Princeton University in 1968 and Ph.D....
    , former U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury
    United States Secretary of the Treasury

    The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense....
     for international affairs


Research Fellows

  • Peter Berkowitz
    Peter Berkowitz

    Peter Berkowitz is an United States political scientist, presently holding a fellowship at the Hoover Institution and an associate professorship of law at George Mason University School of Law....
    , political scientist
  • Robert Conquest
    Robert Conquest

    Dr. George Robert f Ackworth Conquest , United Kingdom historian, became a well known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union with the publication, in 1968, of his account of Joseph Stalin Great Purge of the 1930s, The Great Terror....
    , historian
  • Abbas Milani
    Abbas Milani

    Abbas Milani is an Iranian-American historian, Iranology, and author. Milani is a Visiting Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Iranian studies Program at Stanford University....
    , political scientist
  • Henry I. Miller
    Henry I. Miller

    Henry I. Miller is a fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative free market think tank. He co-authored The Frankenfood Myth with Gregory Conko....
    , physician
  • Russell Roberts
    Russell Roberts

    Russell Roberts may refer to:* Russ Abbot, English comedian* Russell Roberts , voice of Phyllo in the English adaption of .hack//Roots* Russell Roberts ...
    , economist, author
  • Peter Schweizer
    Peter Schweizer

    Peter Schweizer is a conservative author and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His book Do as I Say : Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy received praise from Conservatism political pundits including Bill O'Reilly ....
    , author


Distinguished Visiting Fellows

  • John Abizaid
    John Abizaid

    John Philip Abizaid is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the CENTCOM , overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South Asia and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East....
    , former commander of the U.S. Central Command
  • Edwin Meese
    Edwin Meese

    Edwin "Ed" Meese III served as the seventy-fifth United States Attorney General of the United States ....
    , former U.S. attorney general
    United States Attorney General

    The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the government of the United States....
  • Diane Ravitch
    Diane Ravitch

    Diane Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education who is now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education....
    , former U.S. assistant secretary of education
    United States Secretary of Education

    The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the United States Department of Education. The Secretary is a member of the President of the United States United States Cabinet, and 16th in line of United States presidential line of succession....
  • Alejandro Toledo
    Alejandro Toledo

    Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was List of Presidents of Peru of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in 2001 defeating former President Alan Garc?a....
    , former president
    List of Presidents of Peru

    Established in the Constitution of 1993, the President of Peru, officially the President of the Republic , is the chief of state of Peru and represents the republic in official international matters....
     of Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
     


Publications

The Hoover Institution's in-house publisher, Hoover Institution Press , produces multiple publications on public policy topics, including the quarterly periodicals Hoover Digest, Education Next, and China Leadership Monitor. The Hoover Institution Press also publishes the bimonthly periodical Policy Review
Policy Review

Policy Review is one of America's leading conservative journals. It was founded by the Heritage Foundation and was for many years the foundation's flagship publication....
, which it acquired from the Heritage Foundation
Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation is an American American conservatism-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C.The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies drew significantly from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership....
 in 2001.

In addition to these periodicals, the Hoover Institution Press publishes books and essays by Hoover Institution fellows and other Hoover-affiliated scholars.

Task forces

The following Hoover Institution task forces are made up of both Hoover Institution fellows and scholars from other academic institutions. Hoover task forces encourage collaborative work in specific areas of public policy:
  • K–12 Education
  • National Security and Law
  • Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity
  • Virtues of a Free Society
  • Economic Development
  • Federal Tax and Budget Policy
  • Health Care Reform
  • Ideology and Terror
  • Energy Policy
  • Procedural Reform of Government


Funding

The Hoover Institution receives much of its funding from private charitable foundations
Foundation (charity)

A foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit organizations. Foundations may also and often have charitable organisation. This type of nonprofit organization may either donate funds and support to other organizations, or provide the sole source of funding for their own charitable activities....
, including many attached to large corporations. Its recent donors include
  • Archer Daniels Midland
    Archer Daniels Midland

    The Archer Daniels Midland Company , is a conglomerate based in Decatur, Illinois. ADM operates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into numerous products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industry and animal Fodder markets worldwide....
     Foundation
  • ARCO
    ARCO

    ARCO is an oil company which is, since 2000, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based BP and is officially known as BP West Coast Products LLC....
     Foundation
  • Boeing
    Boeing

    The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William Edward Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997....
    -McDonnell Foundation
  • Chrysler Corporation Fund
  • Dean Witter
    Dean Witter Reynolds

    Dean Witter Reynolds was an United States stock brokerage catering to the middle class. In 1997, it merged with the Morgan Stanley to form Morgan Stanley Dean Witter....
     Foundation
  • Exxon
    Exxon

    Exxon is a brand of fuel sold by ExxonMobil....
     Educational Foundation
  • Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company

    The Ford Motor Company is an United States multinational corporation and the world's List of automobile manufacturers#World Motor Vehicle Production by Manufacturer based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen Group....
     Fund
  • General Motors Foundation
  • J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
  • Merrill Lynch & Company
    Merrill Lynch

    Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. is a global financial services firm which was acquired by Bank of America. This article describes both the historical Merrill Lynch and its ongoing operations as a subsidiary of the bank....
     Foundation
  • Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble

    Procter & Gamble Co. is a Fortune 500, United States multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of Fast moving consumer goods....
     Fund
  • Rockwell International
    Rockwell International

    Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919....
     Corporation Trust
  • Transamerica
    Transamerica Corporation

    Transamerica Corporation is a holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms doing business primarily in the United States....
      Foundation


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