Hoover Institution Fellows On Bush Appointments, Israeli Election, California Electricity Crisis,...

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STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001

Fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are available to comment on the following topics. They may be reached directly or through the Office of Public Affairs at 650/723-0603.

BUSH

Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow. Expertise: The presidency, U.S. political system, U.S. economic and social policy, national security, strategic defense, higher education, campaign financing. Adviser to the Bush campaign. Author: Revolution: The Reagan Legacy (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990). ADVISER TO THE BUSH CAMPAIGN. Contact: 650/723-4742.

Michael Boskin, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Tax and budget theory and policy, U.S. savings and consumption patterns. Member of the panel of advisers to the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and the advisory board of the Congressional Budget Office. ADVISER TO THE BUSH CAMPAIGN. Contact: 650/723-6482.

John Cogan, Senior Fellow. Expertise: The federal budget and domestic human resources policy, the role of the congressional budget process in producing federal budget growth and deficits. Author: The Budget Puzzle (with Tom Muris and Alan Schick, Stanford University Press, 1994). ADVISER TO THE BUSH CAMPAIGN. Contact: 650/723-2585.

John Taylor, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Monetary, fiscal, and international economic policy, created formulas for wage and price setting and models for economic policy evaluation. Member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. ADVISER TO THE BUSH CAMPAIGN. Contact: 650/723-9677.

THE ISRAELI ELECTION/ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Senior 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, Research 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, Senior 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.

CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY CRISIS

Lawrence J. McQuillan, Research Fellow. Expertise: Electricity deregulation. Author: "Electricity `Dereg': How Much Will You Save?" in Consumer's Research (August, 1999). Contact: 650/723-0603.

David R. Henderson, Research 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.

DRUG WAR IN COLOMBIA

William Ratliff, Senior Research Fellow. Expertise: U.S. policy toward Latin America, legal reform and economic reform in Latin America, domestic and foreign policies of Latin America. Author: The Civil War in Nicaragua: Inside the Sandinistas (with Roger Miranda, Transaction Publishers, 1993). Contact by e-mail at ratliff@hoover.stanford.edu or by phone at 650/723-2106.

RUSSIA UNDER PUTIN

Richard F. Staar, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Russia and East-Central Europe, arms control, national security. Staar is the author of The New Military in Russia (Naval Institute Press, 1996). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor. Contact: 650/725-8556.

NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE

Bruce Berkowitz, Research Fellow. Expertise: National security affairs, technology policy, defense and intelligence issues. Author: Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age (with Allan Goodman, Yale University Press, 2000) and The Need to Know: Covert Action and American Democracy (with Allan Goodman, 20th Century Fund, 1992). Contact by e-mail at bdb@pop.erols.com.

Sidney Drell, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Arms control, national security, theoretical physics. Author: Reducing Nuclear Danger (co-authored with McGeorge Bundy and William J. Crowe, Jr., The Council on Foreign Relations, 1993). Contact by e-mail at drell@slac.stanford.edu.

Abraham D. Sofaer, Senior 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.