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70. Diane Stone, “Transnational Philanthropy, Policy Transfer Networks and the Open Society Institute.” CSGR Working Paper 238/08 (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/workingpapers/2008/23808.pdf) (accessed 2 January 2013), p. 2.

71. In an interview with a journalist of the New Republic, George Soros states “Just write that the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.” Michael Lewis, “The Speculator.” New Republic, January 10, 1994 (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/the-speculator).

Kim Scheppele, “The Soros Empire,” presented at the Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program Workshop, “American and German Cultural Policies in Eastern Europe: Assessing Developments in the 1990s,” September 25, 1998, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, October 1999, p.24 (http://www.aicgs.org/publication/american-and-german-cultural-policies-in-eastern-europe-assessing-developments-in-the-1990s/).

72. Diane Stone, “Transfer and Translation of Policy.” Policy Studies, vol. 33, issue 6, 2012, pp. 483-499.

73. Călin Dan, “Soros—the dictatorship of goodwill.” nettime.org, May 10, 1997 (http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00050.html) (accessed 23 January 2013).

74. Paul Stubbs, “Flex Actors and Philanthropy in (Post-)Conflict Arenas: Soros’ Open Society Foundations in the Post-Yugoslav Space,” Politi č ka misao/Croatian J. of Political Science , vol. 50, no. 5, 2013, p. 118.

75. Călin Dan, “Soros—the dictatorship of goodwill,” op. cit.

As a result, as Stone has written, many of the foundations operated in ways that lacked transparency and the financial propriety that OSI, through its funding of transparency initiatives, demanded of others (Diane Stone, “Transnational Philanthropy,” op. cit.)

76. Kim Scheppele, “The Soros Empire,” presented at the Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program Workshop, “American and German Cultural Policies in Eastern Europe: Assessing Developments in the 1990s,” September 25, 1998, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, October 1999, p. 24 (http://www.aicgs.org/publication/american-and-german-cultural-policies-in-eastern-europe-assessing-developments-in-the-1990s/).

77. Paul Stubbs, “Flex Actors and Philanthropy in (Post-)Conflict Arenas: Soros’ Open Society Foundations in the Post-Yugoslav Space,” Politi č ka misao/Croatian J. of Political Science , vol. 50, no. 5, 2013, pp. 114-138.

In the late 1990s, Soros’s endeavors took more of a “global turn,” as Diane Stone put it (Diane Stone, “Transnational Philanthropy,” op. cit.), engaging in long-term partnerships with the World Bank, UNDP, and the European Union.

78. Stubbs and Wedel, op. cit.

See also: Nicolas Guilhot, “Reforming the World: George Soros, Global Capitalism and the Philanthropic Management of the Social Sciences.” Critical Sociology, vol. 33, 2007, pp. 447-477.

Anthropologist Nicholas Guilhot argues, persuasively, that Soros is creating a new technocratic consensus and agreed division of labor between NGOs, state agencies, and international financial institutions, with the global players he spawned proving highly “versatile” in gaining the support of diverse interests.

79. Kim Scheppele, “The Soros Empire,” op. cit.

80. Paul Stubbs and Janine Wedel, “Policy Flexians in Global Order: Contexts, Cases and Consequences,” Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance , Alexandra Kaasch and Kerstin Martens, eds., forthcoming.

81. Conversation with Paul Stubbs, June 26, 2014. See also Paul Stubbs, “Flex Actors and Philanthropy in (Post-) Conflict Arenas: Soros’ Open Society Foundations in the Post-Yugoslav Space,” Politi č ka misao/Croatian J. of Political Science , vol. 50, no. 5, 2013.

82. Conversation with Paul Stubbs, June 26, 2014.

83. Greenpeace USA, “Dealing in Doubt: The climate denial machine vs climate science.” Greenpeace USA, September 2013 (http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/Dealing%20in%20Doubt%202013%20-%20Greenpeace%20report%20on%20Climate%20Change%20Denial%20Machine.pdf).

84. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, “ Shadow Elite: Merchants of Doubt— Do Scientific Denialists Have No Shame?” Huffington Post , June 17, 2010 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-oreskes/emshadow-eliteem-merchant_b_615504.html).

85. Jill Fitzsimmons, “Meet the Climate Denial Machine.” Media Matters for America, November 28, 2012 (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545).

86. Jill Fitzsimmons, Jocelyn Fong, and Shauna Teel, “Who is Robert Bryce?” Media Matters for America, October 7, 2011 (http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/10/07/who-is-robert-bryce/181888).

87. Jill Fitzsimmons, “Meet the Climate Denial Machine.” Media Matters for America, November, 28, 2012 (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545#heritage).

See also: “Jonathan H. Adler,” Policy Experts: The Insider Guide to Public Policy Experts and Organizations (http://www.policyexperts.org/us_experts/us_experts_results.cfm?Topic=OneTopic&Issues=153&state=ALL&Search=Verify%3E).

88. Jill Fitzsimmons, “Meet the Climate Denial Machine.” Media Matters for America, November 28, 2012 (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545#cato); and Cato Institute, “Commentary: Patrick J. Michaels” (http://www.cato.org/people/25/commentary).

89. Jill Fitzsimmons, “Meet the Climate Denial Machine.” Media Matters for America, November 28, 2012 (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545#heartland).

90. Jill Fitzsimmons, “Meet the Climate Denial Machine.” Media Matters for America, November, 28, 2012 (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545#aei).

See also: Ian Sample, “Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study.” The Guardian, February 1, 2007 (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climatechange).

91. Riley E. Dunlap and Peter J. Jacques, “Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks.” American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 57, no. 6, 2013, pp. 699-731 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3787818/).

92. Ibid.

93. http://www.gallup.com/poll/167960/americans-likely-say-global-warming-exaggerated.aspx.

94. Dunlap and Jacques, op. cit.

95. Robert J. Brulle, Jason Carmichael, and J. Craig Jenkins. “Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the US, 2002–2010.” Climatic Change , vol. 114, no. 2, 2012, pp. 169-188.

See also: OpEdNews, “Not Just the Koch Brothers: New Study Reveals Funders Behind the Climate Change Denial Effort.” Press release, OpEdNews, January 5, 2014 (http://www.opednews.com/articles/Not-Just-the-Koch-Brothers-by-Press-Release-Black-Money-Secret-Donors_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Deniers_Denial-140105-86.html).

96. Source Watch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation).

97. Karin Fischer and Dieter Plehwe, “The ‘Pink Tide’ and Neoliberal Civil Society Formation: Think Tank Networks in Latin America.” State of Nature, Winter 2013 (http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=6601).

98. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrochafuen/2014/02/19/think-tanks-and-the-power-of-networks/.

CHAPTER 8

1. For a description of Rodman’s latest (January 2014) visit, see Rosie Gray, “How Dennis Rodman Got to North Korea.” BuzzFeed, January 17, 2014 (http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/how-dennis-rodman-got-to-north-korea).