As the United States has gone through another presidential transition in the aftermath of the 2024 election, Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama is a timely book that details the transition from the administration of President George W. Bush to that of President Barack Obama. It offers insight into the…
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 87: Zeiler on Hadley, et al., Hand-Off
Around the middle of 2014, President Barack Obama reportedly noted to his traveling press corps on Air Force One that a hallmark of his foreign policy was “don’t do stupid sh*t.”[1] That realism contrasted to the previous administration of George W. Bush, an idealist who thought he could remake the world with American power. The…