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government information and contractors, 86–89

increase in executive power, 106–108

institutional loyalty in, 104–106

lack of competition in outsourcing, 92–99

privatizing policy in, 108–109

redesigning governing in, 28–30

shadow government in, 76–82

vision of streamlined state and, 27–28

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

consultant loyalty and, 104–105

economic aid to Russia, 117, 124, 137

Russian Privatization Center and, 134

U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon, 171, 172

U.S. Committee to Expand NATO (U.S. Committee on NATO), 8–9

University of Sarajevo, 24

Unruly coalitions, 59

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 127

U.S. Supreme Court, 102

USAID. See U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Vasiliev, Dmitry, 112, 114, 115, 122, 131–132, 135, 143

Venture capital funds, 77

Vilnius Ten, 9

Vishny, Robert, 128

Voluntary associations, American, 76

Voucher privatization program, 123–124

Walesa, Lech, 47

Walker, David M., 80–81, 102

Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 31, 83, 182, 184

Walsh, Lawrence, 164–165

Warnig, Mathias, 6

Warnke, Paul, 159–160

Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 172

Washington Office of Democracy Assistance for Russia, 137

Washington Post (newspaper), 6, 11, 130, 148, 176, 184, 202

Washington Technology (trade publication), 95

Weber, Max, 15, 28

Weekly Standard (periodical), 182, 184

Weldon, Curt, 168

WHIG. See White House Iraq Group (WHIG)

White House Iraq Group (WHIG), 186

Wilkerson, Lawrence B., 177, 178, 184

Wilson, Joseph, 178, 185

“Wise Men,” 17, 158, 189

Wohlstetter, Albert, 166

influence on Neocon core and neoconservatives, 151–152, 159

Wolfowitz, Paul, 8, 147, 148, 168, 171, 172, 173, 181, 188, 189, 199

Iraq War and, 154, 178

overthrow of Saddam Hussein and, 169–170

Team B and, 159, 160

on terrorism, 156

Wohlstetter and, 151

Woolsey, R. James, Jr., 106, 167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, 185, 188

Workforce

acquisition, 80

blended, 75, 81, 91

embedded, 81

See also Civil servants

World Bank, 24, 118, 144, 189

economic reform aid to Russia, 113, 121, 131, 134, 143

World Trade Organization, 25

neoconservative, 155–157

World War II, neoconservative interpretation of, 155

Wrinn, Joe, 128

Wurmser, David, 170, 171, 172, 173, 181, 187

Wurmser, Meyrav, 152–153, 170, 187, 190

Yale endowment, 139

Yanukovich, Viktor, 60

Yeltsin, Boris, 62, 128

Chubais and, 112, 116–117, 123, 125, 133, 137, 140

“Young Reformers,” 112

Yushchenko, Viktor, 60

Zakheim, Dov, 167, 168–169

Zimmerman, Nancy, 118, 139