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2021

"Shadow Elites: Beyond Institutional Corruption Theory and Ill-Conceived Anti-Corruption Regimes. Toward A New Research Agenda." In Handbook on Quality of Government, Andreas Bågenholm, Monika Bauhr, and Marcia Grimes, Bo Rothstein, eds., Oxford University Press, 2021, pp.63-90.

Review of Institutionalised Dreams: The Art of Managing Foreign Aid, Elzbieta Drakiewicz. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. In Slavic Review Vol. 80, Issue 3, Fall 2021 , pp. 678 - 680, DOI.

2020

"Beyond Cash: Reputation Laundering as a Feature of Transnational Kleptocracy." Commentary written for the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies, December 2020.

"It's 2020. Do You Know Who Your Government Is Serving? America Has Been Conflating Politics and Business for Years-And if We're Not Careful, We Could Go the Way of Post-Soviet Eastern Europe," Zócalo Public Square, December 10, 2020.

"It's Happening Here: What a Ukrainian Fitness Club Taught This Anthropologist about Dirty Togetherness in America," Medium, November 2, 2020.

2019

"When The Gift Is Not Quite A Gift: The Principles of Foreign Aid in Practice", In the International Conference Proceedings of The Conditions of Trust and Peace Process: From Gift to Recognition, Hosted by Institute of Trans-division and Border Studies, Shinhan University (Nov. 7-8, 2019, at the Seoul Global Center), pp. 235-249 (in Korean translation, pp. 43-54).

"Dirty Populists," Project Syndicate, January 2, 2019.

2018

"Déjá Vu: How Today's Western Democracies Recall Eastern Europe under Communism," "Lessons for Liberalism from the 'Illiberal East'," Dace Dzenovska and Larisa Kurtović, eds., Special Issue, Cultural Anthropology, April 25, 2018.

2017

"The Venal Roots of Political Turmoil," Project Syndicate, December 21, 2017.
Reprinted in The Straits Times, and in LiveMint.
(Read in PDF)

"The Big Question: What is the Relationship Between Kleptocracy and Authoritarianism?" National Endowment for Democracy, November 16, 2017, The International Forum for Democratic Studies asked five leading experts about the relationship between authoritarianism and kleptocracy.

"From Power Elites to Influence Elites: Resetting Elite Studies for the 21st Century," Special Issue on Elites, Theory, Culture & Society, Aeron Davis and Karel Williams, eds., September 2017. (Read in PDF)

"Meet the New American Influence Elites: How Top Players Sway Policy and Governing in the Twenty-First Century," The Death of Public Knowledge?: How Free Markets Destroy the General Intellect, Aeron Davis, ed., MIT Press, June 2017, , pp. 213-230.

"Janine R. Wedel:
Why so many distrust government: It doesn't work for them.
," San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2017.

"Trump Is Right That the System Is "Rigged"-and He's Stacking It More: Average Americans Are Losing Power While Self-Serving Elites Lose Public Trust," Zocalo, May 16, 2017.

"A Field Guide to Trump's Swamp," Sapiens, January 19, 2017.

"The Battle-Hymn of the Generals-For-Hire," The Huffington Post, January 17, 2017.

2016

"Foreign Influencing Goes Far, Far Beyond Russian Hack Attacks," The Huffington Post, December 21, 2016.

"'Extreme Vetting' Needed... For Pro-Putin Trump Players," The Huffington Post, December 14, 2016.

"Donald Trump and a World of Distrust," Project Syndicate, November 11, 2016.

"When the public's trust is betrayed, it only fuels a demagogue like Trump," The Huffington Post, November 1, 2016.

"Trumpism 101: The Outsider, Ignored For Years. No longer.," The Huffington Post, October 27, 2016.

"Clinton's Credibility Questioned as Bill's Philanthropy 'Takes It to the Limit'," HuffPost Politics, February 29, 2016.

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2015

"We Need to Clean Up Our Understanding of Corruption," New America Weekly, December 17, 2015.
Syndicated and reprinted: Pacific Standard, January 8, 2016.

"The Petraeus Wrist-slap," USA Today, March 24, 2015.

"High Priests and the Gospel of Anti-Corruption," Challenge, vol. 58, Issue 1, March 2015, pp. 4-22.

Editors' Pick: "Beyond Bribery: It's time to start fighting the most insidious form of corruption — the kind that's legal," Foreign Policy, February 17, 2015.

"Davos & Disruption Done Right: In Praise of "Difficult Women" in Finance," Featured in The Huffington Post, February 5, 2015.

"This is why Piketty matters: Davos and the real story about economists and the 1 percent," Salon, February 1, 2015.

"Forget the McDonnells. We're ignoring bigger, more pernicious corruption right under our noses," The Washington Post, January 12, 2015. (Read in PDF)

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2014

"In the Shadows: How Unaccountable Elites Corrupt Democracy" Discover Society, December 1, 2014, Issue 15.

"'Dark money' goes way beyond elections: Column. Three areas where hidden cash holds sway" USA Today, November 21, 2014.

"Booted by Voters? Still in Hot Demand: 5 Places Former Pols Go After Leaving Congress" The Huffington Post, November 18, 2014.

"Is Your Doctor on Big Pharma's Dole?" The Huffington Post, October 8, 2014.

"U.S. Public Pension Funds and Alternative Investments" (with Siona Listokin), Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York, September, 2014. (Read in PDF)

2013

"Globalisation's Freelancers, Democracy's Decline: The Case of Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and U.S. Aid to Russia." In Globalisation in Practice, Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell, and Steve Woolgar, eds., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.

"Caymans' Folly: Do You Know Where Your Pension Funds Are?" The Huffington Post, February 14, 2013.

2012

"Rethinking Corruption in an Age of Ambiguity." In Annual Review of Law and Social Science Vol. 8, December 2012, pp. 453-498. [Read in PDF]

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2011

"It Was A Wonderful Life: My Odyssey with Bank of America" In The Huffington Post, December 1, 2011.

"Federalist No. 70:  Where Does the Public Service Begin and End?"  In Public  Administration Review, December 2011, p. S118-S127.

"Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals About Power and Influence in America."  In Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power, Cris Shore, Susan Wright, and Davide Pero, eds., New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2011, pp. 151-168.

"Beyond Conflict of Interest: Shadow Elites and the Challenge to Democracy and the Free Market." In Polish Sociological Review, vol. 2, no. 174, 2011, pp. 149-165.

"Shadow Elite: Shaving Cream — Murdoch's Only Punishment?" In The Huffington Post, July 21, 2011.

"Will Foreign Aid Dollars Help or Hurt Democracy in the Middle East?" In The Huffington Post, June 2, 2011.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Capitalism's Crisis Within, and How Larry Summers Still Doesn't Get It" In The Huffington Post, April 21, 2011.

"Shadow Lobbyists & The "Scholars-for-Dollars" Who Helped Rebrand Libya" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, March 24, 2011.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Shadow Elite: Libya and the Consummate Shadow Lobbyist -- Neocon Richard Perle" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, March 3, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Grover Norquist -- Many GOP Legislators Privately Favor Afghanistan Withdrawal" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, February 17, 2011.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Shadow Elite: The Egypt Crackdown -- Shades of Poland Under Martial Law" In The Huffington Post, February 3, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Eisenhower's Dark Vision Realized - The Military-Industrial Complex At 50" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, January 13, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Do Economists Need a Code of Ethics?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, January 6, 2011.

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2010

Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability: Lessons From the World Of International Development Advising. Resource Handbook, co-auth. with Lloyd J. Dumas and Greg Callman, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2010.
(See Table of Contents – password required)

"Shadow Elite: Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, November 18, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Truthiness in the Twitter Era" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, October 21, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: The Small Government Lie – How Both Parties Stood By as Our Government Burned" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, October 7, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: The DISCLOSE Act — Who's Blindfolding the American Electorate?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 23, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Elizabeth Warren's Best Credential: Outsider " (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 16, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: What Blackwater Sells (and the Government Wants): Deniability" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 9, 2010.
Picked up by USA Today.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam: Government Contracting — A Free Market Farce" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 2, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam — The Collision of State & Private Power" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, August 26, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam — Who's Overseeing the Contractors?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, August 19, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam: Government Contracting — A Free Market Farce" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 2, 2010.

"How the Shadow Elite Is Shorting 'Third World America'" In The Huffington Post, August 9, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam — War in the Contracting Age" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, August 5, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks: Irresponsible or Indispensable?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 29, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam & Outsourcing American Power" In The Huffington Post, July 22, 2010.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Shadow Elite: How "Grassroots" Is Organizing for America?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 15, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Has the Obama Organizing Machine Staged A Party Takeover?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 8, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Rolling Stone's Hastings — How Outsiders Provide the Indispensable Check & Balance" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 1, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: McChrystal, Through the Looking Glass" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, June 24, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Neocons Blast Back, On Israel's Behalf" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, June 10, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: BP And Government's Titanic Failure — Outsourcing Its Talent (And Power)" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, June 3, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Wall Street Culture - They Still Don't Get It (Except Their Bonuses)" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, May 27, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Derivatives, A Horror Story" In The Huffington Post, May 20, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Think BP's The Bad Guy? Think Bigger, Way Bigger" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, May 13, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Neocons, The Holocaust & Emergency Powers" In The Huffington Post, May 6, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Wall Street Profiteers - Capitalists or Communists?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, April 29, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Goldman Sachs - Fraud Is Not the Scandal" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, April 22, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Warrantless Wiretap Case & Obama: Abuse of Executive Power?" In The Huffington Post, April 9, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: March to War -- The Neocon Playbook, Straight from the Soviet Bloc." In The Huffington Post, March 25, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: March to War - Is Ahmed Chalabi Under Iran's Thumb?" In The Huffington Post, March 18, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: March to War - Rove, Perle, & Truthiness" In The Huffington Post, March 11, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Why Did Military Top Brass Flout Its Own Chain of Command?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, March 4, 2010.

"Reinventing America: Just End the Budget-Busting Shadow Government" In The Globalist, February 26, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Why Sarah Palin's Really Selling Big Government" In The Huffington Post, February 11, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: The Spy Who Came in From... Wall Street?" In The Huffington Post, February 04, 2010.

"Research on Policy: Shadow Elite: How the Study of Post-Communist Societies Illuminates US Power Structures." In Anthropology News, vol. 51, issue 2, February 2010, p. 27.

"'Shadow Elite': Did The Supreme Court Just Trash Democracy and the Free Market?" In The Huffington Post, January 28, 2010.

"'Shadow Elite': Do You Know Whose Agenda You're Being Sold?" In The Huffington Post, January 21, 2010.

"For The Shadow Elite Failure Often Guarantees Future Rewards" In The Huffington Post, January 14, 2010.

"Is the Government In Charge, Or Is It the Shadow Elite?" In The Huffington Post, January 7, 2010.

2009

SHADOW ELITE: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. Basic Books, 2009.

"Wall Street's bailout gives me déjà vu: The aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown reminds me of the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not in a good way." In Salon, November 8, 2009.

"Ethical Research across Power Divides." In Anthropology Newsletter, September 2009, issue 6, p. 18.

2008

"Le Developpement Pris en Otage: Comment L’Aide Americaine a la Russie a Ete Detournee Par Les ‘Transacteurs’" ("Hijacking Development: How Transactors Undermined U.S. Aid to Russia"). In Revue Tiers Monde, Laetitia Atlani-Duault, ed., no. 193, January-March 2008, pp. 13-36.

"The Shadow Army: Privatization." In Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War, Miriam Pemberton and William D. Hartung, eds. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008, pp. 116-123.

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2007

PRYWATNA POLSKA. Warsaw, TRIO publishers, 2007.

Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability: Lessons From the World Of International Development Advising. Resource Handbook, co-auth. with Lloyd J. Dumas and Greg Callman, Submitted to Ford Foundation, 2007.

"The Shadow Army." In The Boston Globe, September 30, 2007, p. D.9.

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2006

"The Corruption Conundrum: Bridging Perspectives Between East and West." Submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice, December 2006.

"What Russia Can Learn from China in Its Transition to a Market Economy" (with Michael D. Intriligator and Catherine H. Lee). In Clumsy Solutions in a Complex World: Governance, Politics, and Plural Perceptions, Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson, eds.  Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 105-131.

"Harvard's Role in U.S. Aid to Russia." In The Boston Globe, March 25, 2006, p. A15.

"Why Collision and Collusion? Econolobbyists, Transactors, and Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Central European Political Science Review, vol. 7, no. 26, Winter 2006.

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2005

"Flex Organizing and the Clan-State: Perspectives on Crime and Corruption in the New Russia." In Ruling Russia: Crime, Law, and Justice in a Changing Society, William Pridemore, ed. New York, N.Y.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005, pp. 101-116.

"The Role of Sovereign Cliques in the Derailing of Democracy." In Anthropology News, vol. 46, no. 8, November 2005, pp. 28-30.

"Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy" (with Cris Shore, Greg Feldman, and Stacy Lathrop)." In The Use and Usefulness of the Social Sciences: Achievement, Disappointments, and Promise, Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman, eds. Philadelphia: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, vol. 600, July 2005, pp. 30-51. [abstract]

"Why an Anthropology of Public Policy?" In Anthropology Today, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2005, pp. 1-2. [abstract]

"U.S. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Building Strong Relationships by Doing it Right." In International Studies Perspectives, vol. 6, issue 1, February 2005. [abstract]

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2004

"Flex Power: A Capital Way to Gain Clout, Inside and Out." The Washington Post, Sunday, December 12, 2004; p. B04.
(Also on web site: washingtonpost.com, titled "Flex Power: An Influential Band of Policy Brothers").

"Neocon 'Flex Players' Await Bush's Second Term." In Pacific News Service, November 3, 2004.
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"Danger of Private Agendas in Foreign Policy." In Financial Times, August 11, 2004, p. 11.

"Too Tightknit to be Accountable: The outsourcing of crucial government functions to private individuals and companies is an alarming trend." In Salon, August 12, 2004.

"Blurring the State-Private Divide: Flex Organisations and the Decline of Accountability." In Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical Development Reader, Max Spoor, ed. Dordrecht (Netherlands) and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 217-235.

"Courtage International et Institution Floues." (with Siddarth Chandra) In ACTES de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, no. 151-152, March 2004, pp. 114-125. [abstract in Fr. and Eng.]

"'Studying Through' a Globalizing World: Building Method Through Aidnographies." In Ethnographies of Aid: Exploring Development Texts and Encounters, Jeremy Gould and Henrik Secher Marcussen, eds., Roskilde University Centre (Denmark): International Development Studies, 2004, Occasional Paper 24, pp.149-173.

"Transactions in the U.S. Russia Relationship: Representational Gymnastics, Shifting Agency, and Russia's Decline." In The Legacy of the Soviet Union, Andrew Wilson and Wendy Slater, eds., London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 103-121.

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2003

"Mafia Without Malfeasance, Clans Without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe." In Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime, Philip C. Parnell and Stephanie C. Kane, eds., New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 221-244.

"Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking 'Transition' in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." In Journal of International Development, vol. 15, issue 4, May 2003, pp. 427-440.

"Dirty Togetherness: Institutional Nomads, Networks, and the State-Private Interface in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." In Polish Sociological Review, vol. 2, no. 142, 2003, pp. 139-159.

"Why Collision and Collusion? Econolobbyists, Transactors, and Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Ten Years Freedom, Maria Schmidt, ed., Budapest, Hungary: Twentieth Century Institute, 2003.

"Corruption and Organized Crime in Post-Communist States: New Ways of Manifesting Old Patterns".  In Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall 2001, pp. 3-61 (released Fall 2003).

"Accountability in International Development Advising: When Individual Conscience Is Not Enough." In Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 84-89. (Reprinted in Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, Barry Morris and Rohan Batin, eds., New York, N.Y.: Berghan Books, 2004, pp.12-21.)

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2002

"Homo Sovieticus, The Naive American and 11.09." In Anthropology Today, vol. 18, no. 6, December 2002, p. 22.

"Local Government Reform, NGOs, and Training in Russia: A Tale of Three Cities (with Jonathan Harris and Yulia Bolotskikh)." Washington, D.C.: The Eurasia Foundation, 2002.

"Society for the Anthropology of Europe." With Deborah Cahalen and Lynn Maners. In Anthropology News, vol. 43, issue 1, January 2002, pp. 50-51.

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2001

COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe. 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001.

"Who Taught Crony Capitalism to Russia?" In The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2001.

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2000

"Wedel Replies." In The National Interest, no. 61, Fall 2000, pp. 120-121.
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"U.S. Economic Aid to Russia: A Case Study in Subcontracting Governance?" In Civil Society, NGOs and Global Governance, Bob Deacon, ed. Helsinki, Finland: GASPP Occasional Papers, no. 7/2000, July 2000, pp. 33-43.

"Tainted Transactions: An Exchange. Jeffrey Sachs, Anders Aslund, Janine Wedel. Wedel Replies. "  In The National Interest, no. 60, Summer 2000, pp. 107-110.
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"Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia's Ruin."  In The National Interest, no. 59, Spring 2000, pp. 23-34.
Read in PDF.

"Central and Eastern Europe in Transition: A Mixed Record" (with Richard F. Kaufman). In Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium. Martha Honey and Tom Barry, eds., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2000, pp. 185-204.

"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc." In The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter 2000, pp. 393-417.

"Harvard's 'Best and Brightest' Aided Russia's Economic Ruin," with Sam Husseini. In Extra: The Magazine of FAIR -- The Media Watch Group, vol. 13, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 19-20.

"U.S. Economic Aid to Eastern Europe: A Case Study in Transactorship." In "Legal Reform, Investment Markets and International Assistance: The Russian Market Transition in 2000," The Harriman Economic and Business Review, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2000, pp. 16-25.

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1999

"Toward an Anti-Corruption Agenda." Report commissioned by the Social Development Team, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1999.

"Rigging the U.S.-Russia Relationship: Harvard, Chubais, and the Transidentity Game." In Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 7, no. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 469-500.

"Reaching through the Opened Door: A Comparison of American and European Approaches to Assisting Central and Eastern Europe." In American and German Cultural Policies in Eastern Europe: Assessing Developments in the 1990's, Frank Trommler, ed., Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, October 1999, pp. 41-60.

Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power, Cris Shore and Susan Wright, eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. In American Anthropologist, vol. 101, no. 3, September 1999, pp. 694-695.

"How the Chubais Clan, Harvard Fed Corruption."  In Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1999, p. M1.

"U.S. Aid to Kosovo: Lessons from Past Experience." Testimony (written and oral) before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, August 4, 1999.

"Baiting the Bear." In The Washington Times, June 23, 1999, p. A17.

"From Triumphalism to Reality." In Foreign Service Journal, June 1999, vol. 76, no.6, pp. 40-46.

"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc." In Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C.: CATO Institute, no. 338, March 22, 1999.

"Come Clean on U.S. Record for Aid to Russia." In The Moscow Times, March 20, 1999, p. 11.

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1998

COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998. 1st edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1998.

"Western Assistance: Changing Mindsets and Relations, 1989-96." In Transition to Democracy in Poland (second edition), Richard F. Staar, ed. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1998, pp. 243-259.

Surviving Post-Socialism: Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Sue Bridger & Frances Pine (eds), London: Routledge, 1997. In Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 50 Issue 7, November 1998, p. 1277.

The Skeleton at the Feast: Contributions to East European Anthropology. C.M. Hann, Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology & Computing, 1995. In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 4 Issue 3, September 1998, pp.585-587.

"U.S. Aid Added to Russia's Woes." In San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 1998, p. A27.

"Aid to Russia." In Foreign Policy in Focus, vol. 3, no. 25, September 1998.

"The Harvard Boys Do Russia:  How the Best and Brightest Helped Destroy the Russian Economy." In The Nation, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-16 (cover story).

"How AID 'Reformed' Russia." In Foreign Service Journal, vol. 75, no. 5, May 1998, pp. 26-33.

"Informal Relations and Institutional Change: How Eastern European Cliques and States Mutually Respond." In The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 4-13.

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1997

"Second Thoughts from the Second World: Interpreting Aid in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (with Gerald Creed). In Human Organization, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall 1997, pp. 253-264.

"Cliques and Clans and Aid to Russia: How the U.S. Buoyed the 'St. Petersburg Clan." In Transition, vol. 4, no. 2, July 1997, pp. 66-71.

"Abuse of Trust: U.S., Russia, and Harvard."  In The Boston Globe, Thursday, May 29, 1997, p. A15.

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1996

"Clique-Run Organizations and U.S. Economic Aid: An Institutional Analysis." In Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 571-602.

"A Venture into the 'Second World.'" In Foreign Aid Toward the Millennium. Steven W. Hook, ed., Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1996, pp. 141-156.

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1995

"Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Anthropology Newsletter, December 1995, vol. 36, no. 9, p. 11.

The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power:  The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland.  Jan Kubik.  Pennsylvania:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. In American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 1076-1077.

"U.S. Aid to Central and Eastern Europe, 1990-1994: An Analysis of Aid Models and Responses." In East-Central European Economies in Transition, John P. Hardt and Richard F. Kaufman, eds., for the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States, 1995, New York, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 299-335.

"U.S. Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: Results and Recommendations." In Problems of Post-Communism, New York, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 42, no. 3, May-June 1995, pp. 45-50.

"Aid Conference in Washington: Greater Recipients Involvement Advised." In Transition. vol. 6, no. 4, World Bank, Washington, D.C. April. 1995, p. 10.

"In Russia, Don't Tie US Aid to Privatization." In The Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 1995, p. 18.

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1994

"Studying Up: Amending the First Principle of Anthropological Ethics." (with David A. Kideckel). In Anthropology Newsletter, October 1994, vol. 35, no. 7, p. 37.

"Lessons of Western Technical Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Transition, vol. 5, no. 6, World Bank, Washington, D.C. July-August 1994, pp. 14-17.

"Nauki Plynace z Pomocy Stanow Zjednoczonych dla Europy Srodkowej i Wschodniej (1990-1994)." In A Mialo Byc Tak Pieknie: Polska Scena Publiczna Lat Dziewiecdziesiatych. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1994, pp. 293-303.

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1993

"Central and Eastern Europe: Unfinished Revolutions." Policy Paper published by the Atlantic Council of the United States, Jan. 1993. Author, Additional Views; Member, Working Group.

"Ethnic Minorities and Potential Conflict in Poland." In State of the Peoples: A Human-Rights Report on Societies in Danger. Cultural Survival, 1993, p. 199.

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1992

THE UNPLANNED SOCIETY: Poland During and After Communism.  Edited, translated, annotated, and introductions.  New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1992.

"The Demise of Solidarity and the Prospects for Democracy." In Eastern Europe--Transformation and Revolution, 1945-1991: Documents and Essays. Lyman H. Legters, ed. Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath and Company, 1992, pp. 321-333.

"The Unintended Consequences of Western Aid to Post-Communist Europe." In Telos, no. 92, Summer 1992, pp. 131-138.

Testimony (written and oral) on "U.S. Assistance to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. April 7, 1992.

"Getting it Right in Aid to Russia." In The New York Times (FORUM, Sunday Business Section). April 5, 1992.

"Polish Officials Sour on U.S. Aid Approach." In The Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 1992.

"Beware Western Governments Bearing Gifts." In The Wall Street Journal Europe, January 14, 1992.

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1991

"The Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Societies." In The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 1991.

1990

"Polish Society: Ties of Legitimacy." In Polish Paradoxes, Anthony Polonsky and Stanislaw Gomulka, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 237-260.

"The Economist Heard around the World." In World Monitor, October 1990 (cover story).

"Two Views on Condition of Poland's Economy / Situation described as "tragic'." In The Christian Science Monitor, April 4, 1990.

Series of four op ed articles on Eastern Europe. In The Christian Science Monitor (International Edition). Winter, 1990:
    • "German Reunification, Polish Vulnerability."
       (March 29, 1990)
    • "Poles Try to Catch up with Capitalism." (March 12, 1990)
    • "After Poland's Euphoria." (January 5, 1990)
    • "Solidarity's Caution." (December 28, 1989)

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1989

"Lech's Labors Lost?" In World Monitor. November 1989 (cover story).

"Why Solidarity Appears Unable to Make Progress: Poland's 'Inner Circle' Struggling." In San Francisco Chronicle. November 8, 1989.

Series of six op ed articles on Eastern Europe. In The Christian Science Monitor (International Edition). Fall 1989:
    • "Polish Survivors of the Gulag." (October 31, 1989)
    • "Poland: Still Socialist." (October 19, 1989)
    • "The Grass-Roots Revolution in Poland."
       (September 28, 1989)
    • "Solidarity in Decline." (September 21, 1989)
    • "Poland's Fledgling Parties." (September 14, 1989)
    • "Solidarity's Quandary, Now it's Responsible."
       (September 7, 1989)

"New Wave of Polish Activists, Entrepreneurs." In The Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 1989.

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1988

"The Organization of Informal Social and Economic Systems in Centrally Planned Societies." In Culture and Society. Warsaw, Poland, December 1988.

1987

1986

THE PRIVATE POLAND: An Anthropologist's Look at Everyday Life. New York. N.Y.: Facts on File, 1986. 

"Church Power in Poland is More Political than Moral." Pacific News Service, September 1986.

"Struktury Nieformalne w Polsce." In Polityka Spoleczna (Social Policy), Warsaw, Poland, no. 5/6, 1986, pp. 27-30.

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