Janine Wedel
Professor of Public Policy

Publications & Research

Books
Shadow Elite: The Merging of State and Private Power, Basic Books.

Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001.

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

The Unplanned Society: Poland During and
After Communism. Edited, translated,
annotated, and introductions. New York, N.Y.:
Columbia University Press, 1992.

The Private Poland: An Anthropologist's Look at
Everyday Life. New York. N.Y.: Facts on File,
1986.

Articles in Refereed Journals and Chapters
“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.

“Why an Anthropology of Public Policy?” In Anthropology Today, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2005, pp. 1-2.

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

"Flex Organizing and the Clan-State: Perspectives on Crime and Corruption in the NewRussia." 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.

"Blurring the State-Private Divide: Flex Organisations and the Decline of Accountability." 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.

"'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.

"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.

"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.)

"Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking 'Transition' in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." In Journal of International Development, vol. 15, 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.

Analytic and Policy Articles
"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").

"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.

"Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia's Ruin." In The National Interest, no. 59, Spring 2000, pp. 23-34.

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

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

"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).

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.