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National Rifle Association (NRA), 171

National Science Foundation, 77

National Security Advisory Council, 172

National Security Agency (NSA), 85, 106

National Security Council (NSC), 149, 162, 164, 178, 183

NATO, 8–9

NBC, 2, 4

NCS. See National Clandestine Service (NCS)

Near East South Asia directorate (NESA), 179

Negri, Antonio, 40

Neocon core

and personalizing bureaucracy, 149, 175–183, 187

and privatizing information, 149, 175, 177, 187

and revising rules, 182–183, 187

as resource pool, 18, 175–183

ballistic missile defense and, 165–169

building, 150–152

as collective, 152–154

current activities, 187–191

fall of Saddam Hussein and, 169–187

as flex net, 16–19, 189

hybrid habitat of, 19, 175–183

interconnections through organizations, 172

intricate spine of, 16, 152–154, 174

investigations of, 149, 182, 188, 190

Iran-Contra affair and, 161–165

key players, 147–150

shared conviction and action of, 17, 154–158, 174

success and effectiveness of, 17, 189–193

Team B, 158–161

Neoconservatism, 150

Neoliberalism, 27–33

performance and, 41

NESA. See Near East South Asia directorate (NESA)

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 156, 170

Network-based organizing, 38–39

Networks and networking, 15–20, 26, 29

within government and political elites, 19–20

See also Neocon core, Chubais-Harvard players, and flex nets

issue, 189

old-boy, 15

to obtain goods and services, 51–55

to obtain resources following collapse of communist states, 58–61

restructuring, 59

self-enfranchising, 13

Neutrality

neoliberal policies and, 31–32

think tanks and, 167–168

New America Foundation, xv, 102

New institutional forms of governing, 27, 75, 86, 109

New institutional forms of power and influence, 4, 5, 20, 27, 33, 35, 108, 109, 136, 204

New public management, 29

New Republic (periodical), 184

“New world order,” 34

New York Times (newspaper), 2, 3, 41, 43, 45, 112, 140, 176, 185, 194

NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) performing governmental functions, 32–33

of transitional Europe, 174

NIE. See National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)

NIK, 69, 71

Nonstate actors, 1

accountability and, 200

end of Cold War and, 34–35

with flex qualities, 23–25

increased role of, 34

playing rules of countries against each other, 9–10, 200

Norris, Jim, 122

North, Oliver, 161–162, 163, 164

Northrop Grumman, 31, 106

NRA. See National Rifle Association (NRA)

NRC. See Nuclear Regulatory Committee (NRC)

NSA. See National Security Agency (NSA)

NSC. See National Security Council (NSC)

Nuclear Regulatory Committee (NRC), 89

Obama, Barack, 37, 41–42, 145, 204

Objective enemies, 155

Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), 10

Office of Government Ethics, 92

Office of Management and Budget, 10

Office of Special Plans, 179, 180, 181, 182

Office of Worker Advocacy, 97

Offshore finance, 37

OFPP. See Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP)

Old-boy networks, 15

Oligarchies, 141–142

Oligarchs, 125

Open Society Institute (OSI), 25

Orange Revolution, 60

Ordynacka, 63–68

Organizations

flexians and, 1, 5, 15

letterhead, 171

lobbying, 171

Neocon core and, 170–175

Organized crime, profiting following collapse of communist states, 59

See also Flex organizations

Osborne, David, 27

OSI. See Open Society Institute (OSI)

Outcomes, government and emphasis on, 29, 30

Outsourcing. See Contracting out

Oversight

contracting out and lack of government, 80–81

flexians and, 20, 199–202

IDIQ contracts and, 95–98

outsourcing government, 84, 87–88

Packer, George, 174, 175–176

Palin, Sarah, 42

Para-governmental organizations, 32

Parastatals, 32

Paszyński, Aleksander, 56–57

Paulson, Henry, 7

Pentagon

flexians and access to information, 2, 3

Iraq War and, 179–180

outsourcing and, 84

Perle investigation, 198

See also Department of Defense

Peres, Shimon, 164

Performance(s), 30, 40–42, 72, 75–76, 199

Perle, Richard, 8, 100–101, 152, 169, 191, 199

audit of activities, 197–198

Chalabi and, 190

Feith and, 147–149, 152, 153

on Holocaust, 155

investigations of, 148–149, 198, 202

Iraq War and, 179, 181, 183–184, 185, 186

missile defense and, 166

as Neocon core leader, 147, 148–150, 153–154

Neocon core organizations and, 171, 172, 173, 188

overthrow of Hussein and, 170, 174–177, 179

Team B and, 159

on terrorism, 156

Wohlstetter and, 151

worldview of, 156–157

Perry, William J., 106

Persian Gulf War, 85

Personalization of bureaucracy, 15–16, 52, 61, 62, 72, 94, 96

Personalization of resources, 127–129

Petraeus, David, 2, 3, 190

PFRON (Fund for the Rehabilitation of Disabled People), 70

Pillar, Paul R., 177, 180, 183

Pioneer First Voucher, 131

Pipes, Richard, 159–160

Plame, Valerie, 178

Podhoretz, John, 184

Podhoretz, Norman, 150, 151, 188

Poehler, Amy, 42

Poindexter, John, 162

Poland

appropriate of state funds by private entities, 69–71

flex activity in, 13–15

institutional nomadic groups in, 55–63

Ordynacka, 63–68

reaction to German Gazprom deal, 5

rise of almost flex nets in, 58–63

social circles, 55–58

Policy Review (periodical), 184

Polish-Soviet Friendship Society, 49

Polish Television, 64

Political appointees, 157

Political coverage in media, 41–42

Politicization of civil servants, 108

Polityka (newspaper), 56

Potanin, Vladimir, 125

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, 24

Powell, Colin, 177, 184

Power

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

privatization of, 27, 35, 54, 68

Power, Michael, 197, 199

Power Elite, The (Mills), 19

Presidential appointments, 108

Presidential decrees (Russian), 137

President’s Management Agenda, 73

Pressley, Donald, 128

Private, blurring of state vs. , 28, 33, 63

Privatization, 4, 15, 31–32, 33

of information, 16–17, 92, 124–126, 175, 177

of intelligence services, 90

post-communist states and, 58–59

of power, 27, 35, 54, 68

of public policy, 108–109

in Russia, 123–126, 124, 126

of state functions, 7, 70–71, 76–77 ( See also Contracting out)

Privatizing Russia (Schleifer, Boycko & Vishny), 128

Professional Services Council, 93

Project for the New American Century, 8, 170, 171, 172, 173–174, 184

Project On Government Oversight, 11

Project RAND, 28

Public interest watchdogs, 12

Public policy

contractors and, 89

Harvard Institute for International Development and, 118

privatizing, 108–109

role of task forces in, 77, 101–102

Public policy institutions, 102–103

Public trust, violation of, 205

Pundits, flexians as, 2–3, 11, 45

Putin, Vladimir, 6, 62, 142, 143

Quangos, 32, 135

Quasi-governmental organizations, 32, 77, 100–101

Quasi-government boards, 74, 75

RAND, 28, 77, 151

Rapaczynski, Wanda, 65