he Hoover Institution at Stanford University is seeking outstanding post-doctoral scholars for appointments at the rank of Research Fellow for the Hoover History Lab. The term of the appointment is one year from September 2023, through August 2024, and may be renewed. Scholars will be associated with the Hoover History Lab’s project “Global Futures – History, Statecraft, System,” encompassing a history of the world from the 18th century to the present. Topics include but are not limited to the 18th century civic revolution, especially in the United States; the invention of the fiscal military state in the U.K. and elsewhere; the advent of a global economy; the eruption of modern populist politics in the guise of Napoleon III and the welfare state under Otto von B