Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a think tank and a library at Stanford University in California. It was founded in 1919 by the future President of the United States Herbert Hoover. The Hoover Institution has a large archive of Herbert Hoover, the First and Second World War. It is funded primarily by donations from foundations, large American corporations such as JP Morgan, General Motors, Exxon and Procter & Gamble. Since 2001, she published the journal Policy Review.

The Hoover Institution has great influence on the conservative and libertarian movements of the United States. Conservative members of U.S. governments (about Donald Rumsfeld ) have given lectures at the Institute. A meeting of President George W. Bush with researchers at the Hoover Institution was prevented in 2006 by students at Stanford University and other demonstrators. Some of the Fellows of the Institute or included politicians, such as Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but also the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the economist Milton Friedman and the co-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit, Josef Joffe.