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Hoover Institution Fellows On Russia & Missile Defense, California's Energy Crisis, Global Warming, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.


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STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2001

Fellows at the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President  at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president.  are available to comment on the following topics. They may be reached directly or through the Office of Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information.  at 650-723-0603.

Russia & Missile Defense Missile defence is an air defence system, weapon program, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles. Originally conceived as a defence against nuclear-armed ICBMs, its application has broadened to include shorter-ranged  

Michael McFaul Michael A. McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of Political Science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. , Hoover Fellow. Expertise: International relations international relations, study of the relations among states and other political and economic units in the international system. Particular areas of study within the field of international relations include diplomacy and diplomatic history, international law, , Russian political and economic reform and emerging Russian political institutions, U.S. foreign policy in the former communist world. McFaul has written extensively on Putin's government. His recent articles and opinion columns have been featured in the Journal of Democracy, the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Washington Post. Contact: 650-723-1351.

Bruce Berkowitz, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: National security affairs, technology policy, defense and intelligence issues. Author: Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age (with Allan Goodman, Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was  Press, 2000) and The Need to Know: Covert Action Covert action may refer to:
  • Covert operation, several HUMINT techniques used by intelligence agencies.
  • Covert Action, a game designed by Sid Meier.



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 and American Democracy (with Allan Goodman, 20th Century Fund, 1992). Contact by e-mail at bdb@pop.erols.com.

Abraham D. Sofaer, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: International relations, national security affairs, United Nations peacekeeping and nation building. Legal adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1990. Author: Editor The New Terror: Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons (Hoover Press, 1999). Contact: 650-725-3763.

California's Energy Crisis

James Sweeny, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: Natural resource issues, energy economics, environmental economics, electricity demand and financial forecasting. Author: Coeditor of the Journal Resource and Energy Economics member of the editorial board of The Energy Journal. Contact: 650-723-2847.

David R. Henderson, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: Public policy, the unintended consequences of government regulation and spending. Author: edited The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (Warner Books, 1993). Contact: 650-723-0621.

Global Warming

Thomas G. Moore, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: Global warming and environmental issues. Author: In Sickness or in Health: The Kyoto Protocol versus Global Warming (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 2000). Contact: 650-723-1411.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is also one of the authors of the selectorate theory. , Hoover Fellow. Expertise: International conflict, foreign policy formation, trends in political change that influence economic development, political stability. Author: Principles of International Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000). Contact: 650-725-4202.

Charles Hill, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: Middle East peace process, international political affairs. Served as special consultant on policy to the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1992 -1996. Author: Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga (co-authored with Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Random House, 1999). Contact at Yale 203-432-6291.

Abraham D. Sofaer, Hoover Fellow. Expertise: International relations, national security affairs, United Nations peacekeeping and nation building. Legal adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1990. Contact: 650-725-3763.
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