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Havel, Václev, 50

Hay, Jonathan, 145

economic reform in Russia and, 111–112, 114–115, 121, 122, 130–132, 135, 137, 200

lawsuits against, 127–128, 144

signature authority, 130

Hayden, Michael, 90

Hebert, Elizabeth, 122, 130, 131, 132

Heilbrunn, Jacob, 150–151, 187

Helfrich, Monique, 201

Hersh, Seymour, 180

Holocaust, 155

Hudson Institute, 190

Hungary, restructuring networks, 59

“Hunting license,” 94

Hussein, Saddam, 9, 169–170, 180

Hutchinson, Asa, 84

Hybrid habitat, 19

Chubais-Harvard players and, 137–138

nomadic groups and clans and, 63

Hyper-nationalists, 157

IBM Business Consulting Services, 89

Ideology, neoconservative, 155

IDIQ contracts, 93–98

IGs, 11, 201

IMF. See International Monetary Fund (IMF)

INC. See Iraqi National Congress (INC)

Incentives, system of, 3

Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) system, 93–98

Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues, 24

Industrial Security (GAO report), 87

Influence, new institutional forms of, 4, 5, 20, 27, 33, 35, 108, 109, 136, 204

Informal economy, 56

Information

access to official, 1–2, 3, 35

contractors and, 86–89

financial crisis and monopolies of, 40

flexians as guardians of, 4

flex organizations and inside, 136

Neocon core and misuse of classified, 149

privatization of, 16–17, 92, 124, 126

for public decisions in private hands, 51

word-of-mouth, 52–53

Information technology

outsourcing, 89

transparency and, 36–37

Inherently governmental functions, 74

defined, 31, 82–83

outsourcing of, 83–86

performed by Harvard advisers, 119

Inman, Bobby R., 106

Insourcing, 86, 98

Institute for Law-Based Economy, 114, 115, 135

Institutional nomads and nomadic groups, 57–58, 59, 60–61

looting of state and, 68–71

Ordynacka, 63–68

relation to flexians/flex nets, 61–62

Institutions

decline in loyalty to, 26, 104–106, 193–194, 198–199

relaxing rules of, 18–19

Intelligence outsourcing, 79, 85, 90

Intelligence reports

alternative assessments, 158–161

Iraq War and, 180–183

Neocon core and authority of, 179–180

Interagency contracting, 97

Interest

coincidences of, 1, 4, 12, 20, 106

conflicts of ( see Conflicts of interest)

Interest groups, 16, 29, 52, 63, 154, 189

International Advisors, Inc., 149

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 24, 113, 121, 140, 143

Intricate spine

Chubais-Harvard players as, 121–122

of flex net, 16

Neocon core as, 152–153

nomadic groups and clans and, 62

Iran, Neocon core members and, 188

Iran-Contra affair, 152, 161–165

Iranian Time Bomb, The (Ledeen), 188

Iraqi Governing Council, 190

Iraqi National Congress (INC), 176, 181

Iraq War

private contractors and, 74, 85, 99–100

role of flexians in campaign for, 2–3, 9, 183–186

Israel

Iran-Contra affair and, 164

Issue networks, 189

Issue tracker, 25

Jackson, Bruce P., 8–9

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 147–148, 151–152, 153, 159, 166, 175

Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 47

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Associates, 114, 118, 123

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), 169, 171, 172, 174

Job security, consulting and declining, 26

Journalism

investigation of flexian activity, 12

waning authority of, 202

See also Media

Journal of Economic Perspectives , 144

Judicial Watch, 102

Judis, John B., 8, 184

Kaczyński, Jarosław, 69

Kaczyński, Lech, 69

Kagan, Robert, 184

Kamiński, Antoni, 57, 69, 71

Kash, Don, 37–38

KBR Halliburton, 74

Kelman, Steven, 10–11, 93, 105

Kennedy, John F., 17

Kennedy School of Government, 10

Khashoggi, Adnan, 164

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 63, 142

Khomeini (Ayatollah), 164

Kitchen cabinets, 158

Kokh, Alfred, 133, 141, 143

Kornai, János, 48

Kosals, Leonid, 54, 60

Kownacki, Piotr, 70

Krauthammer, Charles, 176, 182

Kristol, Irving, 150, 151

Kristol, William, 184, 185

Kryshtanovskaya, Olga, 62, 116, 120

Kurczewska, Joanna, 57, 60–61

Kwaśniewski, Aleksander, 64

Kwiatkowski, Karen, 179, 180, 181–182, 183

Kwiatkowski, Robert, 64, 66

Laird, Melvin R., 106

Lang, W. Patrick, 179–180

Lead systems integrators, 84

Ledeen, Michael, 149, 152, 153, 171, 172, 173, 176

Iran-Contra and, 162, 163, 164–165

Iran and, 188

Lenin, Vladimir, 16

Letterhead organizations, 171

Leverett, Flynt, 178

Levitt, Arthur, Jr., 122

Lewis, Charles, 186

Lewis, Harry R., 145

Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 172, 173, 178, 181, 186, 190

Light, Paul, 78, 108

Line item veto, 107

Lipton, David, 118, 123

Loans for shares, 125

Lobbies and lobbyists, 11, 15, 16, 20, 59, 63, 167, 189

Lobbying organizations, 171

Lobe, Jim, 155–156, 171, 182, 185

Lockheed Martin, 8, 31, 74

Los Angeles Times (newspaper), 198

Lowi, Theodore J., 76

Loyalty

flexible, 1

to flex net, 17, 121–122, 152–154

to institutions, 15, 104–106

accountability and decline in, 193–194, 198–199

transnational, 121–122

Lynn, Barry C., 40

Malaki, Nuri al-, 190

Maloof, Michael, 181

Manhattan Project, 28

Mann, James, 161

Market

bureaucracy vs. , 14–15, 28

dark, 36–37

narratives of, 75, 108

See also Competition, government contracting and; Competition of private sector, redesign of governing and

Market economy, construction of in Russia, 111, 113

“Marriott Brigade,” 113

Mathews, Jessica, 39

Matthews, Chris, 185

Mayer, Jane, 180

McCaffrey, Barry R., 2–4, 186, 194, 202

McFarlane, Robert, 162, 163, 164, 165

MDA. See Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

Media

Chubais-Harvard players and, 128–130

flexian use of, 16–17, 43–45, 128–129, 180–186

investigation of flex activity, 194–195

neoconservative argument for Iraq War and, 185–187

truthiness and, 41–45

Medvedev, Dmitry, 6

MEMRI. See Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

Merrill Lynch, 122

Merry, E. Wayne, 125

Meyer, Dick, 42

Michnik, Adam, 64, 65

Middle East Forum, 176

Middle East policy, neoconservatives and, 155–156, 188

Miller, Judith, 176, 185

Miller, Leszek, 64, 65, 66

Miller, Richard, 97

Mills, C. Wright, 19

Missile Defense Agency (MDA), 166

Mobilization, 157

Monde, Le (newspaper), 9

Money laundering, 34–35, 140–141

Monroe, James, 107

Moral community, 198–199

Morgan Stanley, 83

Morningstar, Richard, 120

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 157

Mutual funds firms, lawsuits against Harvard project players, 128

Naím, Moisés, 34–35, 204

NASA, 79, 80

National Clandestine Service (NCS), 84

National Economic Council, 117

National Energy Policy Development Group, 101–102

National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), 159, 160, 168

National Interest (periodical), 184

Nationalists, assertive, 157, 175

National Organization for Women, 171

National Public Radio, 185

National Radio and Television Council, 64, 66

National Reconnaissance Office, 85

National Review Online , 185

National Review (periodical), 184