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rewriting codes of competition, 19, 92–99

CACI, 84, 95–96, 97–98

Callman, Greg, 24–25

Cambone, Stephen, 167, 168

Capital Markets Forum, 122, 131

Carter, Jimmy, 107

Casey, William, 162

Cassidy, John, 196

Castells, Manual, 41

CBSNews.com, 42

Center for Public Integrity, 100

Center for Security Policy, 156, 167, 168, 171, 172, 173–174

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 171

Center for the Protection of Private Property, 133

Central and Eastern Europe, 24, 47–72, 113, 199

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

on ballistic missile defense, 168

Chalabi and, 181

contractors and, 84, 88, 90

Neocon core and, 156, 159–160, 180

Chalabi, Ahmed, 176, 181, 184, 185, 190, 198

Cheney, Dick, 44

Energy Task Force and, 101–102

Iraq War and, 178, 185, 190

Neocon core and, 8, 158

Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 140

Christian Right, 157–158, 175

Chrysler, 204

Chubais, Anatoly, 112, 142–143

Åslund and, 130

Chubais Clan and, 116–117

foundations, 133

Harvard associates, 114, 115, 116

presidential decrees and, 137

privatization in Russia and, 123, 125–126, 135

Summers and, 140–141

See also Chubais Clan; Chubais-Harvard players

Chubais Clan, 116–117, 120–121, 124, 140

Chubais-Harvard players, 114–117

creating hybrid habitat, 137–138

current positions, 142–146

as gatekeepers, 122

as intricate spine, 121–122

juggling roles and representations, 129–135

Larry Summers and, 117–121

lawsuits against, 144

obstructing reform, 126–127

as personalizing bureaucracy, 121, 126–127

as privatizing information, 124, 126–127

as relaxing rules, 135–138

as resource pool, 131–133

results of, 141–142

shared conviction and action, 122–129

supplanting state, 135–138

wider network surrounding, 138–141

CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Citigroup, 204

Civil servants

Neocon core and marginalization of, 177–183

politicization of, 108

recruitment by private industry, 90

reducing number of, 78–79

Civil service reform, 29

Civil society, dark side of, 35

Civil Society Foundation, 133

Clans, 54, 59–60, 193

Chubais, 116–117, 120–121, 124, 140

relation to flexians/flex nets, 61–62

Russian, 137–138

Clan-state, 137–138, 141–142

Clarke, John, 30

Clearing and settlement organizations (CSOs), 126–127

Cleary Gottlieb, 145

Clemons, Steve, xiii

Clinton, Bill, 10, 29, 107, 118

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 42, 101

Clinton administration

contracting out and, 78, 83, 92–93

pressure to overthrow Hussein, 170

CNBC, 2

Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 99

Cohen, Stephen F., 128

Coincidences of interest, 1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 20, 75, 100–101, 106, 109, 119, 143, 146, 193, 194

Colbert, Stephen, 41

Cold War, end of, 4, 7, 34–35

flexian activity and, 9–10

growth of shadow government and, 78

as transformational development, 34–35

Collective revolving door, 132–133

Command economy, 51–52, 53–54

Commentary (periodical), 150, 184, 188

Commercial Services Management Initiative, 73

Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, 171, 172

Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, 9, 171, 174

Committee on the Present Danger, 160

Commodity derivatives market, 36–37

Commodity Futures Modernization Act (2000), 36

Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 37

Communism

privatization following collapse of, 58–59

system of, 51–55

See also Cold War, end of

Communist state, coping with bureaucracy of, 48–55

Companies, overlap with government advisory boards, 100–101

Competition, government contracting and, 92–99

Competition of private sector, redesign of governing and, 19, 29, 81–82

Competitive sourcing, 73–74, 83

Competitive Sourcing Initiative (Commercial Services Management Initiative), 73

Complex technologies

advent of, 4, 36–40

truthiness and, 40, 43

Comstock, Amy, 92

Conflicts of interest

Chubais-Harvard players and, 127–128, 146

contracting and, 91, 98, 100

flexians and, 12, 19

Congressional Research Service (CRS), 77

Consulting, 24–26, 30, 104–106

Contract budget/spending, 79

Contracting out, 15

accountability and, 30–31

competition in, 93–95, 98

Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity system, 93–98

information technologies, 89

of inherently governmental functions, 80–81, 82–86

interagency, 97

Share in Savings, 11

United States and, 28–29, 74–75, 77

Contractors

agency commitment of, 104–105

governmental functions carried out by, 83–86

government information and, 86–89

increase in number of, 78–79

oversight of, 80, 87–88

Contracts, deregulation of award of, 10

“Contract with America,” 167

Contras, Iran-Contra affair, 161–165

Conviction, shared, 16–17

Chubais-Harvard players and, 122–123

Neocon core and, 154–158

Corruption, 12, 20, 201, 205

accusation of, in Russia, 62–63

Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, 179, 180, 181, 182

CPA. See Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

Credit Suisse First Boston, 131

Criminal enterprise, fragmentation of

authority following end of Cold War and, 34–35. See also Organized crime

Crisis mentality, neoconservatives and, 157, 158

CRS. See Congressional Research Service (CRS)

CSOs. See Clearing and settlement organizations (CSOs)

Culture of auditing, 196–200

Culture shock, 38

Czarzasty, Włodzimierz, 64, 66

Daily Show, The (television show), 42

Dark markets, 36–37

Dark side of civil society, 35

Databases, contractors and control of, 84

D.E. Shaw & Co., 145

Defense Authorization bill (1997), 168

Defense HUMINT, 179–180

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 164, 179–180, 183

Defense Policy Board, 100, 149, 169, 174, 181, 197

Defense Science Board, 100

Defense strategy, of neoconservatives, 155–158

Democracy, flex activity and, 19–20, 205

Democratic Leadership Council, 93

Dempsey, Joan, 79–80

Deniablity, 200–201

Department of Defense, 10, 98, 198

CACI and, 95–96

civil service rules and, 108

contracting out and, 79, 80–81, 85, 87, 99

See also Pentagon

Department of Energy

contracting out and, 79, 80, 97

Department of Health and Human Services, 73, 80

Department of Homeland Security

civil service rules and, 108

contracting out and, 79, 80, 81, 84, 88

loss of personnel, 90

Department of Interior, 98

Department of Justice, 99, 127–129, 144, 145–146

Department of Labor, 26, 97

Department of Homeland Security 79, 84, 85, 88, 90

Department of the Interior, 96

Deregulation, 31–32

of contract awarding, 10

Deutch, John M., 106

Development Strategy of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 24

Devic, Ana, 25

DHS. See Department of Homeland Security

DIA. See Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Dine, Thomas, 120, 134

Dion, Celine, 17

Dirty togetherness, 51–55

Documents, contractors drafting official, 85

Donetsk Clan, 60

Donnelly, John, 143

Earth Institute, 143

Eastern Europe, 58–63, 111–146. See also Central and Eastern Europe