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April 2023
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Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama

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Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org

Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama

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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: (AFP OUT) U.S. President George W. Bush (R) walks on the colonnade with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama at the White House November 10, 2008 in Washington, DC. This is the first visit for Barack Obama to the White House before he is sworn into office as President of the United States. First lady Laura Bush took soon to be first lady Michelle Obama on a tour of the White House as the President and Mr. Obama walked along the colonnade to the Oval Office where they will have a meeti
President George W. Bush walks on the colonnade with President-elect Barack Obama at the White House November 10, 2008, in Washington, DC. (Gary Fabiano-Pool/Getty Images)
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April 2023
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Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org

Speakers:
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Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Stephen J. Hadley
Stephen J. Hadley

Author, Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama and Twentieth US National Security Advisor

Moderator:
Peter Rough Hudson Institute
Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

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Join Hudson Institute Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran and Director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia Peter Rough for a discussion with the Twentieth United States National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley on his new book, Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama.

About the Book

Hand-Off offers a firsthand look at the foreign policy the Bush administration turned over to President Obama. The book includes thirty newly declassified transition memoranda made public for the first time, offering an exclusive glimpse into Bush's foreign policy legacy. 

In a postscript to each memorandum, national security experts from the Bush administration take a look back at their foreign policy record after more than a dozen years out of office.

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