![]() This volume provides invaluable insights as to how the Bush administration prepared to hand off the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (not to mention persistent terrorist threats and other brewing crises) to the Obama administration. “Presidential transitions are fraught with risk, particularly when thousands of Americans are in harm’s way as one administration passes the baton to the next. Senator, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and former U.S. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a veteran of two White Houses, I particularly appreciate how helpful these materials will be in ensuring future transitions serve the country well from a national security point of view.” - Rob Portman, U.S. “These national security transition memoranda, attachments, and, perhaps most importantly, the postscripts, constitute an invaluable resource for policy makers and historians. ![]() history, Hand-Off is a must read for anyone who wants a good understanding of how foreign policy was formulated and implemented under President Bush.” - James A. An honest critique of both the strengths and weaknesses of that administration during a critical time in U.S. Bush, whom Steve served for four years as National Security Advisor and four years as Deputy National Security Advisor. Above all, he understands well what philosopher George Santayana meant when he said: ‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’ This Hadley-edited book, Hand-Off, is a frank examination of the eight years of foreign policy of President George W. “Stephen Hadley always has been and remains a thoughtful and candid public servant, one who puts his country’s national interest on the very highest shelf. Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School ![]() “An impressive contribution to Applied History that shows the Bush administration learning from history to help subsequent administrations build on their success and learn from their failures.” Hand-Off will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students, policy analysts, and general readers seeking to understand afresh the Bush administration’s foreign policy, particularly in view of the records of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. In a postscript to each memorandum, these same experts now in hindsight take a remarkably self- critical look at that Bush foreign policy legacy after more than a dozen years of watching subsequent administrations attempt to deal with the same vexing agenda of threats and opportunities– China, Russia, Iran, the Middle East, terrorism, proliferation, cyber, pandemics, and climate change-an agenda that still dominates America’s national security and foreign policy. Thirty of these Transition Memoranda, newly declassified and here made public for the first time, provide a detailed, comprehensive, and first-hand look at the foreign policy the Bush administration turned over to President Obama. Hand-Off details the Bush administration’s national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush.
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