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• Minutes of discussion at Mont Pelerin Conference, April 1st-10th
• Session 1 : welcoming address
• Session 2 : "free" enterprise and competitive order
• Session 3 : "free" enterprise and competitive order (continued)
• Session 4 : modern historiography and political education
• Session 5 : the future of Germany
• Session 6 : the future of Germany (continued)
• Session 7 : the problems and chances of European federation
• Session 8 : the problems and chances of European federation (continued)
• Session 9 : liberalism and Christianity
• Session 10 : discussion on agenda, etc.
• Session 11 : contra-cyclical measures, full employment, and monetary reform
• Session 12 : statement of aims
• Session 13 : wages and wage policy
• Session 14 : further discussion of statement of aims
• Session 15 : taxation, poverty, and income distribution
• Session 16 : agricultural policy
• Session 17 : Meeting on organisation
• Session 18 : the present political crisis
• Session 19 : the name of the society

Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The society was created by Friedrich Hayek as a forum for leading economists and intellectuals to discuss and debate classical liberal values in the face of a rapidly changing world and political trends toward socialism. Bruce Caldwell, a major scholar of Hayek, provides an informative introduction and explanatory notes to the source documents, drawn from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, where they have been available to scholars. Now accessible to all, the transcripts reveal what was said on a wide range of topics, including free markets, monetary reform, wage policy, taxation, agricultural policy, the future of Germany, Christianity and liberalism, and more. They provide insights into the thinking of men such as Hayek, Milton Friedman, Aaron Director, Frank Knight, Walter Eucken, Karl Popper, and other leading figures in the classical liberalism movement, illuminating not only their ideas but also their distinctive personalities. A photo section shows rarely seen images from the meeting.
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• Welcomed by crows
• I become a gardener
• Camp life
• My first whipping
• Sickness and disease
• A hand through the barbed wire
• Building the monument
• Thumann and the beatings
• Categories of prisoner
• Hunger and the jackals
• Organization of the camp
• The mausoleum and the turtle
• Homo homini lupus
• Peter Birzer
• The arrival of the Jews
• Herr Knips
• Food packages
• Finishing off the Jews
• The gallows and selections for the gas
• The golden calf
• Releases and contact with the free world
• Fluchtpunkte
• Killing the Effektenkammer Kommando
• The camp administration
• The move to Field 4
• Fourteen thousand peasants
• Marmorstein
• Auf der Flucht erschossen
• Seeing my brother
• I get my Fluchtpunkt
• The plan to free the camp
• Lagersperre
• The massacre of seventeen thousand Jews
• The Gehenna in the Lagerschreibstube
• Typhus fever
• Hessel the fiddler
• Christmas Eve, 1943
• The dead arrive
• Sexualnot
• Exekutiert
• Laurich, the "angel of death"
• They count us like gold, but treat us like shit
• Every SS man carries a baton in his bag
• The Revier
• Daily pensum
• Trips to the laundry
• Transports
• Thumann leads me to the crematorium
• The best depart
• Shipping corpses
• The last of the Mohicans
• My typhus
• The air raid of the camp
• Convalescence
• Judgment day
• Hunting for Home Army soldiers
• Shortening the front
• Camp evacuation under Soviet fire
• A brickyard in Kraśnik
• A shed in Skarżysko
• Zugang 190 513 in Auschwitz

In this memoir, Jerzy Kwiatkowski tells the harrowing tale of the sixteen months he spent at Majdanek, a concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin in occupied Poland. In stark detail, he describes the organization and operations of the camp and, for its prisoners, the fierce struggle for survival. Written in 1945, with events still fresh in his mind, Kwiatkowski's memoir provides a documentary-caliber look at prisoner life, from its mundane frustrations-endless roll calls, rations of rutabaga and potatoes-to its glimmers of hope-smuggled contraband, the strong bonds formed by the prisoners. It offers a first-person view on the Nazi regime's darkest excesses, from forced labor and starvation to systematic murder. First released under Soviet-era censorship in Poland in 1966, Kwiatkowski's memoir was published in a complete, uncensored Polish version in 2018 and has now been translated into English for the first time. The edition is richly illustrated with rare archival images from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the State Museum at Majdanek, who are proud to make this valuable historical record available to a wide audience.
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• Introduction / Terry L. Anderson
• Hydrocarbons are here to stay / Mark P. Mills
• The political realities of climate policy / Kenneth W. Costello
• Merging trade and climate policy / Timothy Fitzgerald
• Subsistence in Alaska native villages : adapting in the face of climate change and government regulations / E. Barrett Ristroph
• Improving price discovery to accelerate adaptation to climate change / Gregory W. Characklis, Benjamin T. Foster, and Matthew E. Kahn
• Can fire insurance manage wildfire risks in California? / Ronald Bailey

How can markets help us address the challenges of climate change? Most current climate policies require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Editor Terry L. Anderson brings together essays by nine leading policy analysts who argue that adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy.
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• Sparta ascendant, Athens rising : alliance, ambivalence, rivalry, and war in a tripolar world / Paul A. Rahe
• The Punic Wars / Barry Strauss
• A strategic campaign : the Byzantine emperor Herakleios destroys Sasanian Persia / Edward N. Luttwak
• Gustavus Adolphus and the rise of Sweden / Peter R. Mansoor
• Napoleon's Italian campaign / Andrew Roberts
• The Sino-American Littoral War of 2025 : a future history / Michael R. Auslin

Since ancient times, there have been military operations that attempted to produce tectonic shifts in the balance of power. In this volume, historians demonstrate how knowledge of past military operations can inform current policy discussions by analyzing conflicts between dominant states and the rising powers who seeks to contest their hegemony. What might a conflict between the United States and its main rival, China, look like in the years ahead? What factors are important for strategists to consider? Paul A. Rahe considers the rival ambitions between Sparta and Athens. Barry Strauss explores the Punic Wars fought by Carthage and Rome. Edward N. Luttwak examines a decisive military campaign between the Byzantine empire and its nemesis, the Sasanians. Peter R. Mansoor describes the emergence of Sweden as a military might under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus. Andrew Roberts studies the expansion of French power during Napoleon's Italian campaign. Michael R. Auslin formulates a hypothetical conflict between China and the United States in the year 2025. Each of these conflicts offers important lessons about the behaviors of ascendant powers and the responses they provoke.
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• Pt. I. Essays. Picturing empire : nishiki-e and the wars of Imperial Japan / Olivia Morello ; Michael Auslin
• Anchors of history : the long shadow of Imperial Japanese propaganda / Barak Kushner
• Multinational perspectives of visualized journalism on the Sino-Japanese War : a comparative study of Meiji Japan, Qing China, and Europe / Toshihiko Kishi
• Nishiki-e and war prints / Junichi Okubo
• A visual revolution : the emperor in popular nishiki-e / Alice Y. Tseng
• Visual media trends during the Russo-Japanese War period : a comparative study of Meiji Japan and Czarist Russia / Toshihiko Kishi
• Bakudan san'yūshi : the three heroes of Shanghai / Hanae Kurihara Kramer ; Scott Kramer
• The Pacific War and kamishibai / Tsuneo Yasuda
• Printed wartime kamishibai / Taketoshi Yamamoto
• pt. II. Collection highlights. Women at war -- Bushidō : samurai values -- Iconic symbols -- War horses -- Technology -- International propaganda war

Japan's Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
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• Diplomats in search of a government, November 1917-September 1918
• Government in search of a policy, October-December 1918
• Around the Paris Peace Conference
• Recognition? : March-July 1919
• Immobility and defeat : after Versailles
• General Vrangel' : from recognition to evacuation

Even as a country ceases to be a great power, the concept of it as a great power can continue to influence decision making and policy formulation. This book explores how such a process took place in Russia from 1917 through 1920, when the Bolshevik coup of November 1917 led to the creation of two regimes: the Bolshevik "Reds" and the anti-Bolshevik "Whites." As Reds consolidated their one-party dictatorship and nursed global ambitions, Whites struggled to achieve a different vision for the future of Russia. Anatol Shmelev illuminates the White campaign with fresh purpose and through information from the Hoover Institution Archives, exploring how diverse White factions overcame internal tensions to lobby for recognition on the world stage, only to fail-in part because of the West's desire to leave "the Russian question" to Russians alone. In the Wake of Empire examines the personalities, institutions, political culture, and geostrategic concerns that shaped the foreign policy of the anti-Bolshevik governments and attempts to define the White movement through them. Additionally, Shmelev provides a fascinating psychological study of the factors that ultimately doomed the White effort: an irrational and ill-placed faith in the desire of the Allies to help them, and wishful thinking with regard to their own prospects that obscured the reality around them.
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• 1. The International Criminal Court: Between continuity and renewal / Viviane E. Dittrich
• 2. Attacked, applauded, threatened, universalized. Or: A Wednesday at the International Criminal Court / Alexander Heinze
• Part I: Stocktaking: Looking back and looking ahead. 3. Is power or reason the way to peace? / Benjamin B. Ferencz ; 4. Justice without fear or favour? The uncertain future of the International Criminal Court / Leila Nadya Sadat ; 5. The way forward for the International Criminal Court and its stakeholders: focus inward / Christopher R.F. Hale ; 6. The relevance of the Nuremberg Principles as a source of law for decision making of subsequent International Criminal Judiciary / Katarína Šmigová
• Part II: Context and constraints
• Section A: Prosecutorial policy and practice. 7. Prosecuting 'The most responsible': The law and politics of the expectation and strategy / Fannie Lafontaine and Claire Magnoux ; 8. The use of non-governmental investigatory bodies at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: An offer we can(not) refuse? / André C.U. Nwadikwa-Jonathan and Nicholas E. Ortiz
• Section B: Jurisdiction and admissibility: Normative considerations and prosecutorial discretion. 9. General Assembly Referral to the International Criminal Court / Fergal Gaynor ; 10. The complementary global regimes working for peace and justice and the pursuit of universal jurisdiction / Andrea Marrone ; 11. Complementarity and due process as a question of admissibility: From fighting impunity to seeking justice? / Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León ; 12. The dynamics of complementarity and preliminary examinations / Adedeji Adekunle
• Section C: Victims and witnesses. 13. Trauma in the witness stand: Effective evaluation of trauma-impacted testimony at the International Criminal Court / Ellie Smith ; 14. Five categories of victims and the consequences on the International Criminal Court / Christoph Safferling and Gurgen Petrossian ; 15. Judicial protective measures for victims and witnesses vis-à-vis external actors at the International Criminal Court / Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo ; 16. The development of witness evidence law at the International Criminal Court / Hilde Farthofer
• Section D: Defence issues: Procedural and institutional perspectives. 17. Length of proceedings at the International Criminal Court: Context, latest developments and proposed steps to address the issue / Benjamin Gumpert and Yulia Nuzban ; 18. Founding an International Criminal Court Bar / Philippe Currat and Brice Van Erps
• Section E: Legitimacy and independence. 19. Cultivating the court's legitimacy and the use of constructivism to prepare for Head of State Aggression Prosecutions / Cara Cunningham Warren ; 20. Defining situations at the International Criminal Court / Nicolai von Maltitz and Thomas Körner ; 21. Politics and the institutional integrity of the International Criminal Court / Shannon Fyfe
• Part III: Achievements and legacy: Reflections on the twentieth anniversary of thE Rome Statute. 22. Quo vadis, International Criminal Court? The European Union's role and responsibility to support the court in good times and in bad times / Barbara Lochbihler ; 23. Russia and the International Criminal Court: From uncertain engagement to positive disengagement / Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov ; 24. Speech by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Nuremberg Forum 2018 marking the twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute / Heiko Maas ; 25. Speech by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the Nuremberg Forum 2018 marking the twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute / Fatou Bensouda ; 26. The twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court / Bertram Schmitt

This edited volume provides a broad perspective on the International Criminal Court's development over time and explores some of its topical issues, achievements, challenges and critiques. The anthology combines reflections from scholars and practitioners and includes voices from inside and outside the Court, featuring multiple readings of its activities, practice and developments. In line with the volume's title, the authors portray the establishment and development of the Court (hence the theme 'past'), critically engage with its successes and challenges ('present'), and draw conclusions on its achievements and way forward ('future'). The book examines five key topics: prosecutorial policy and strategy, jurisdiction and admissibility, victims and witnesses, defence issues, and legitimacy and independence. It includes a number of papers and speeches given at the Nuremberg Forum 2018. -- Back cover

• Einleitung
• Eine jüdische Kindheit
• Politische Anfänge und die SPD
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Revolution
• Für die KPD im Preussischen Landtag
• "Bolschewisierung" und "Stalinisierung"
• Der Weg in Exil
• Frankreich und die USA
• Rückkehr nach Deutschland und zur SPD

Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885-1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905-7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified-and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.
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• A life of groundbreaking achievement
• The theoretical physicist
• In service to country : Jason and the Cold War
• Declaration of principle
• The Hoover Institution and the Gang of Four
• Bagatelles for Drell

Sidney Drell (1926-2016) left a legacy worthy of many lifetimes. Physicist, professor, national security expert, amateur musician, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and champion for peace and human rights, he was also friend and mentor. Dozens of interviews with those whose lives he touched reveal Drell as a man of brilliance, curiosity, and passions, whose devotion to the arts, family, and community equaled his love for physics.Teaching at Stanford University and working at its linear particle accelerator, Drell made significant scientific contributions. Not content to leave science in the lab or classroom, Drell brought his intellectual heft to public service, advising the US government on issues relating to science, advocating for Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov, and urging nuclear disarmament. Scaling the heights of achievement with a down-to-earth sensibility, Drell met his destiny empowered and validated by a prodigious mind, generous spirit, and tact in fostering goodwill for the benefit of all.
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• Identifying change
• Developing familiarity with all military domains
• Losing trust in a wartime general
• Rehabilitating the army after a botched war
• Leading a change in force design
• Building relationships with the political echelon in force design

The commander, or chief of staff, of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. His decisions, advice, and persona exert direct influence on force design and military strategy, and indirectly impact social, economic, and foreign affairs. This first-ever in-depth comparative study on the role and performance of the IDF chiefs of staff throughout modern Israel's history offers lessons for practitioners and students of strategy, military history, and leadership everywhere.
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• Chapter One: Guidelines: Debated and Implemented
• Chapter Two: Wage and Price Controls: Bad Economics Brings Bad Policy
• Chapter Three: Damage Control as the Economy Fights Back
• Chapter Four: Reversal and Reform: Good Economics Generates Good Policy
• Chapter Five: Orthodox Policies and Strategic Thinking Work
• Appendix A: Timeline of Key Events
• Appendix B: Letter from Arthur Burns to President Nixon, June 22, 1971 Appendix C: Economic Strategy for the Reagan Administration: A Report to President-Elect Ronald Reagan from His Coordinating Committee on Economic Policy, November 16, 1980
• Appendix D: Frequently Asked Questions
• Notes
• References for Further Reading
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Index

What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their several decades of experience at the forefront of national economic policy making to show how market fundamentals beat politically popular government interventions-be they from Democrats or Republicans-as a recipe for success. Choose Economic Freedom reconstructs debates from the 1960s and 1970s about the use of wage and price controls as tools of policy, showing how brilliant economists can hold diametrically opposed views about the wisdom of using government intervention to spur the economy. Speeches and documents from the era include a recently unearthed memo from Arthur Burns, Federal Reserve chair, in 1971, in which he argues in favor of controls. Under Burns's guidance and in the face of stubborn inflation, Nixon introduced wage and price guidelines and freezes. But over the long run, these became a drag on the economy and ultimately failed. It wasn't until the Reagan administration that these controls were reversed, resulting in a vibrant economy. The words of iconic economist Milton Friedman-whose "free to choose" ethos inspired the free-market revolution of the Reagan era-along with lessons Shultz and Taylor learned from the front lines, demonstrate that tried-and-true economic policy works.
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• Prologue: The chastening
• Blowback : the road to dissension
• Homeward bound
• A rescuer's line
• Coda: In the time of the Americans

Saudi Arabia has always held some mystery to Westerners. Writing in 2010 and looking back over two decades, the late Fouad Ajami provides deeper insight into the political culture on the Arabian Peninsula, presenting a firsthand look at Saudi Arabia's leadership, its rival factions, and its conduct and influence in foreign lands. From the influence of Islam in public life to Saudi rulers' attitudes toward the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, the author fills a significant gap in our understanding of that country. During the course of those two decades, Ajami gained access to Saudis from all walks of life. In these pages he reveals, largely in their own words, their true feelings on a broad range of subjects. He also draws from a new wave of Saudi literature, revealing works of fiction and biography that afford us a fresh view of the Saudi reality. In addition, he conveys the thoughts of the bloggers, with all their verve, irreverence, and immediacy, providing a window into the world of the skeptics and the modernists in that land.
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• Part I. Introduction to the hinge of history
• Part II. A walk around the emerging new world. Russia in an emerging world / excerpt: from "Russia and the solecism of power" by David Holloway ; China in an emerging world / excerpt: from "China's demographic prospects to 2040: opportunities, constraints, potential policy responses" by Nicholas Eberstadt ; excerpt: from "China's rise in Artificial Intelligence: ingredientsand economic implications" by Kai-Fu Lee and Matt Sheehan ; Latin America in an emerging world. Sidebar: Governance lessons from the emerging new world: India ; excerpt: from "Latin America: opportunities and challenges for the governance of a fragile continent" by Ernesto Silva ; excerpt: from "Digital transformation in Central America: marginalization or empowerment?" by Richard Aitkenhead and Benjamin Sywulka ; The Middle East in an emerging world. excerpt: from "The Islamic Republic of Iran in an age of global transitions: challenges for a theocratic Iran" by Abbas Milani and Roya Pakzad ; Europe in an emerging world. Sidebar: Governance lessons from the emerging new world: Japan ; excerpt: from "Europe in the global race for technological leadership" by Jens Suedekum ; Africa in an emerging world. Sidebar: Governance lessons from the emerging new world: Bangladesh ; excerpt: from "Unlocking the potential of mobile tech in Africa: tracking the trends and guiding effective strategy on maximizing the benefit of mobile tech" by André Pienaar and Zach Beecher
• Part III. An emerging America.. Emerging technology and America's economy / excerpt: from "How will machine learning transform the labor market?" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Prasanna Tambe ; Emerging technology and America's national security / excerpt: from "Information: the new Pacific coin of the realm" by Admiral Gary Roughead, Emelia Spencer Probasco, and Ralph Semmel
• Part IV. Shared challenges to governance. The information challenge to democratic elections / excerpt: from "What is to be done? Safeguarding democratic governance in the age of network platforms" by Niall Ferguson ; Governing over diversity in a time of technological change / excerpt: from "Unlocking the power of technology for better governance" by Jeb Bush ; Demography and migration / excerpt: from "How will demographic transformations affect democracy in the coming decades?" by Jack A. Goldstone and Larry Diamond ; Health and the changing environment / excerpt: from "Global warming: causes and consequences" by Lucy Shapiro and Harley McAdams ; excerpt: from "Health technolgy and climate change" by Stephen R. Quake ; Emerging technology and nuclear nonproliferation / excerpt: from "Nuclear nonproliferation: steps for the twenty-first century" by Ernest J. Moniz
• Part V. What have we learned?
• Governance in an emerging new world: project timeline

The world is at an inflection point. Advancing technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges. Great demographic changes are occurring rapidly, with significant consequences. Governance everywhere is in disarray. A new world is emerging. These are some of the key insights to emerge from a series of interdisciplinary roundtables and global expert contributions hosted by the Hoover Institution. In these pages, George P. Shultz and James Timbie examine a range of issues shaping our present and future, region by region. Concrete proposals address migration, reversing the decline of K-12 education, updating the social safety net, maintaining economic productivity, protecting our democratic processes, improving national security, and more. Meeting these transformational challenges will require international cooperation, constructive engagement, and strong governance. The United States is well positioned to ride this wave of change-and lead other nations in doing the same.
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