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Rašidagić, Ešref-Kenan, 23–24

Raytheon, 74

Reading-Smith, Mark, 186

Reagan, Ronald, 27, 29, 107, 196

Iran-Contra and, 161, 162, 164

Reagan administration, neoconservative activists and, 152

Reagan revolution, 28

Reality, idea of, 42, 44–45

Reality-based community, 45

Redesign of governing, 4, 27–33, 78, 81–82

Reforma, 116

Regnery, Alfred S., 77–78

Regulations, accountability and, 201–202, 203–204

Reinventing government initiative, 29

Reinventing Government (Osborne & Gaebler), 27

Representations, juggling, 17–18, 62, 129–135

Republican Party, Jackson and, 8

Resource pool

Chubais-Harvard players and, 131–133

flex net as, 18

Neocon core as forming, 170–176

nomadic groups and clans and, 62

Resources, personalizing, 127–129

Resource Secretariat, 114

Restructuring networks, 59

Revolving door, 17–18, 105–106

collective, 132–133

Rice, Condoleezza, 190

Rich, Frank, 41, 44

Roles and representations

flexians and overlapping, 4, 5, 8, 13, 21

juggling, 17–18

Chubais-Harvard players and, 129–135

nomadic groups and clans and, 62

Romania, unruly coalitions in, 59

Round Table, 57, 64

Rove, Karl, 43

Rozen, Laura, 188

Rubin, Robert, 122, 139

Rules

Chubais-Harvard players and relaxing of, 135–138

contractors drafting, 89

relaxing at interstices of official and private institutions, 18–19

shaping financial, 37

Rumsfeld, Donald, 158

Iraq War and, 3, 178, 181, 190

missile defense and, 168, 169

Russia

clans in, 59–60, 137

as clan-state, 137–138, 141–142

concentration of information, resources, and decision making in, 62–63

economic reform aid to, 111–122, 130–132, 135, 137, 200

looting of state in, 68–69

privatization in, 123–126

Schroeder’s flexian activity and, 5–8

See also Chubais-Harvard players; Soviet Union

Russian Privatization Center, 114, 115, 131, 132, 134–135, 136

Rywin, Lew, 64, 65

Rywingate, 63–68

Sachs, Jeffrey

economic reform aid in Russia and, 113, 114

Harvard Institute for International Development and, 117

reinvention of, 143

relationship with Chubais Clan, 116, 117, 118, 129

SAIC. See Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Salomon Brothers, 122

Sasakawa Foundation, 116

Saturday Night Live (television show), 41, 42

Sawyer Miller, 124

Schinasi, Katherine, 86–87

Schroeder, Gerhard, 5–8

Science and Engineering Associates, 97

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), 74, 89

Scott, Graham, 29

Scowcroft, Brent, 174

SDI. See Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Second economy, 52

Secord, Richard, 162, 163

Self-regulation, accountability and, 201

Self-starters, 26

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 182

September 11, 2001, 107, 175

Service contracts, 79, 81, 83

SETA (Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance), 81

Shadow elite, 20, 205

Shadow financial system, 204

Shadow government, 30–31, 76–77

Shadow Government, The (Guttman & Willner), 30, 78

Shame, 202–203

Shared conviction and action, 17

Neocon core and, 154–158

Share in Savings contracting, 11

Shleifer, Andrei, 114, 115, 116, 121, 122, 135, 144, 145–146, 203

lawsuits against, 127–128, 144

Summers and, 118, 120, 139–140

voucher privatization program and, 123, 124

Shock therapy, 113

Shulsky, Abram, 172, 173, 188

Sierra Club, 102

Signing statements, 107–108

Slaughter, Anna-Marie, 40

SLD (Democratic Left Alliance), 64

Social circles, 55–58

Social networks. See Networks and networking

Sokin, Albert, 137

Sokoĺowska, Janina, 67–68

Solidarity, 47, 55, 57

Soros, George, 25

Sourcing, competitive, 73–74

Sovereignty, challenges to state, 39–40

Soviet Union

flexians and power vacuum following breakup of, 13–14

neoconservatives and, 155, 159

See also Russia; Ukraine

St. Petersburg Clan. See Chubais Clan

Stanford University, 126

“Star Wars,” 165–169

State, 1

blurring of private vs. , 28, 29, 33, 59, 63, 149

challenges to sovereignty of, 39–40

Chubais-Harvard players and supplanting of, 135–138

clan-, 137–138, 141–142

privatization of, 7, 70–71, 76–77

streamlined, 27–28

State budget, appropriation of by institutional nomads, 68–71

State Department, 156, 181, 183, 198

State Property Committee, 114, 115, 118, 123–124, 131, 132, 133, 136, 141

Steinhardt, Barry, 88

Stephanopoulos, George, 43

Stewart, Jon, 4, 42, 44

Stimulus plans, contractors and, 83

Strange, Susan, 39, 193–194

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 166

Strategic Objectives Panel of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 159–161

Streamlined state, 27–28

Stubbs, Paul, 24, 25

Studeman, William, 106

Student Movement Ordynacka Association, 63

Summers, Larry, 117–121, 145

Chubais and, 140

Chubais-Harvard players and, 117–121, 137

Shleifer and, 139–140, 144

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) surveillance program, 87–88

Syria, as neoconservative target, 188

System of incentives, 3

Targeted funds ( fundusze celowe ), 69–70

TARP. See Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Task Force on National Health Reform, 101

Task forces, 100–101

Task orders, 94

Team B, 158–161, 167

Technical assistance, 113

Technology. See Complex technologies

Tenet, George, 181

Terrorism

enhanced executive power after 9/11 and, 107

Iraq War and, 179

neoconservatives and, 156

Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, 88

Thatcher, Margaret, 27, 196

Theft, 53

Theory, flexians and, 16

Think tanks, 102–103

Åslund and, 129

ballistic missile defense and, 167–168, 169

Neocon core and neoconservative-affiliated, 170–175

Today (television show), 3

Tolchin, Susan, xiv, 213

Transformational developments, 4, 26–27

advent of complex technologies, 4, 36–40

end of Cold War, 4, 34–35

redesign of governing, 4, 27–33

truthiness, 4, 40–45

Transnational loyalty, Chubais-Harvard players and, 121–122, 138–141

Transparency

new technologies and, 36–37

in post-Cold War era, 35

Treasury Department, 88

Trotskyists, neoconservatism and, 150

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 84

Trust, personalizing bureaucracy and, 52

Truthiness, 4, 40–45

defined, 41

think tanks and, 103

Turner, Stansfield, 148

Tymoshenko, Yuliya, 60

Ukraine

clans in, 60

looting of state in, 68–69

Underground economy, 52

UNICEF, 24

Unified Energy Systems, 142–143

United Kingdom

auditing and, 196–197

vision of streamlined state and, 27–28

United States

ambiguous institutional arrangements in, 99–103

auditing and, 196–197, 201

blurring of state and private power in, 15, 204

changes in federal government, 73–76

consulting in, 26

contracting out inherently governmental services, 82–86

draining of official government in, 90–92

economic aid to Russia ( see Chubais-Harvard players)