What special ethical problems arise for managers and employees of companies when they do business in countries and cultures other than their own? The essays in this book address the multifaceted aspec
In this in-depth, fact-based evaluation, Ken G. Glozer provides detailed a political history of how the United States ended up with current federal corn ethanol policy. Part I relates the significa
THE HUGE YET INVISIBLE ISSUE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNWhen presidents name justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, they may be making significant decisions in terms of the lasting and direct impact on
Freedom's Call and Its Cruel PriceIn The Syrian Rebellion, Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and the differences in s
Fixing Dodd-Frank—a new proposal for bankruptcy lawThe events of the last several years on Wall Street make a compelling case for comprehensive, fundamental reform in the oversight of financial firms.
Facing the risks and potentially deadly consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear powerNuclear energy can provide great benefits to society; in the form of nuclear weapons, however, it can cause dea
Facing the risks and potentially deadly consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear powerNuclear energy can provide great benefits to society; in the form of nuclear weapons, however, it can cause dea
In recent years, the term lawfare has come to describe the use of international law as a political weapon. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Ga
Imagining a State Department as effective as the US militaryConventional wisdom in Washington in recent years has maintained that the US State Department is dramatically undernourished for the work re
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN MONETARY THEORY AND APPLIED MONETARY POLICY: THE TAYLOR RULETwenty years ago, John Taylor proposed a simple idea to guide monetary policy. Quickly the idea spread, not only th
"My life is not important. It's not even very interesting. Ideas are all that's important."—Eric HofferTHE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF THE "LONGSHOREMAN PHILOSOPHER"A truly original American writer and thinke
Originating in Hoover Institution discussions held under the auspices of the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, Conserving Liberty defends the principles of American conserva
The real facts on America's health care dilemmaMedical care in the United States has been loudly and repeatedly derided as inferior in comparison to health care systems in much of the developed world
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its crit
This book assesses the changes that have occurred in the twenty years since A Nation at Risk, which urged major reforms in American education, was issued by the National Education Commission. It offer
In The Illusion of Net Neutrality, coauthors Bob Zelnick and his daughter, Eva Zelnick, sound the alarm on how the ever-increasing threat of regulations, rules, and powerful competing interests could
Social conservatives and libertarians: Is a meeting of the minds possible?Feuding among US conservatives for the title True Conservative is nothing new. Underlying the feud has been a failure to grasp
THE FUTURE OF RELIABLE AND SECURE ELECTRIC POWERProviding reliable and secure electric power to meet the growing demands of this century, and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, is a daunt
The formation of NATO represented a turning point in the history of both the United States and the other Atlantic powers. For the first time in peacetime, America had engaged in a permanent alliance l
Our emerging dilemma-how will we climb a mountain of entitlement debt?The federal government is today facing the largest fiscal challenge since World War II. The fundamental question before the nation
