Raising student achievement by raising teacher quality—a "radical" approachPublic schools face the challenge of educating large numbers of students for whom learning does not come easily. They are ins
Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell inte
This volume presents twenty-six essays that showcase the brilliant originality and range of economic thought that earned Hoover Institution senior fellow Gary S. Becker the Nobel Prize in Economic Sci
South Korea—and all of East Asia—has come a long way in developing democracy and a free market economy, but weak legal systems cloud its economic and political future. Corruption pervades every part
A noted scholar of contemporary Iran, Milani looks at the history of the Iran-U.S relationship, honing in on the myth of the U.S. as the "Great Satan." In chapters dealing with the fall of the Shah, t
Marius Deeb, an Oxford-educated authority on Middle Eastern politics and history, in a detailed sequel to his authoritative Syria’s Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process, details how the coa
Abraham D. Sofaer argues that US policy toward Iran cannot safely be restricted to a strategy that considers only the two high-risk, costly, and potentially infeasible options of a preventive attack o
In Motherland Lost, Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of the Copts—the native Egyptian Christians—and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it
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.
The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime
In this volume the eleven members of the Koret Task Force on K?12 Education provide a broad overview of the American education system?pulling together basic facts about its structure and operation, id
Cogan (Hoover Institution) along with Daniel P. Kessler (economics, law, and policy, Stanford University Graduate School of Business) and R. Glenn Hubbard (dean of the Graduate School of Business at C
The four essays present in this volume by Machan (a professor at Chapman U. and a Hoover Institution research fellow) advocate for a classical liberal (or "libertarian") approach to understandings of
This book explains that Moscow's weapons programs are best understood and anticipated "as an attempt to satisfy the requirements of [Soviet] doctrine and strategy," which are based on nuclear war—figh
The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vladislav Krasnov reports, the free world has often pl
Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws
In Revolution and Aftermath: Forging a New Strategy toward Iran, Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh examine one of the most underappreciated forces that has shaped modern US foreign policy: American-Iranian
In February 1994, the Hoover Institution held a conference on Congress, inviting more than two dozen scholars, journalists, and members of Congress to participate in an array of panel discussions. The
We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam examines the legacy of one of the most popular and eccentric newspapers to cover the Vietnam War. With its mix of hard-hitting military exposés, pinu
In Beyond Disruption: Technology’s Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities,
