Ep. 146 Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama

<p>Stephen J. Hadley served as deputy national security advisor, and then national security advisor to President George W. Bush. He recently edited a new book, along with Duke professor Peter Feaver and others, <a href= "https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780815739777/Hand-Off-The-Foreign-Policy-George-W-Bush-Passed-to-Barack-Obama">Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama.</a></p> <p>The book is a collection of the national security and foreign policy memos that were prepared for the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations. The memos are now declassified and are made public in this book for the very first time, along with detailed post scripts from the original memo writers.</p> <p>Stephen Hadley was on Duke’s campus for the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture Series and he spoke with guest host David Schanzer. Schanzer is a professor in the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. He also leads the <a href= "https://tcths.sanford.duke.edu/">Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.</a></p>