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 SHADOW ELITE: The New Agents of Power and Influence. Forthcoming, Basic Books, 2009.
The book is about the practices that movers and shakers employ to wield power and influence in today's more networked, reorganizing world. Shadow Elite explores the implications for democracy to be drawn from the new rules of the game and the extent to which they take us beyond traditional corruption and conflict-of-interest in
an account-ability-challenged era.
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 COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe.
2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001.
"Wedel's probing look at cross-cultural miscom-munication demonstrates that Western resolve and the global rush to benefit from the demise of communist rule was costly not only to societies resistant to change, but to the American taxpayer as well."
- The Washington Post
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 COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998. 1st edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1998.
"[Janine Wedel] is good at conjuring up the sense of adventure and psychological complexity that ensued as West and East got to know each other up close. She carefully charts the misunderstandings and cultural collisions as Western aid-givers tried to impose their own terms of reference on societies they were usually poorly equipped to understand."
- The Wall Street Journal
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 THE UNPLANNED SOCIETY: Poland During and After Communism. Edited, translated, annotated, and introductions. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Wedel's book "[weaves] essays and interviews from twenty Poles into a compelling tapestry. Her contributors...tell how people actually lived under a system that claimed total authority but was in reality incapable of exercising any form of positive control over Poland. Wedel...connects these wide-ranging native observations with introductions and annotations."
- Edward E. Roslof, Harvard University
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 THE PRIVATE POLAND: An Anthropologist's Look at Everyday Life. New York. N.Y.: Facts on File, 1986.
"Janine Wedel renders a multi-layered portrait of Polish life...and opens to the Western reader... the mix of principle and compromise, tradition and improvisation, the bending to necessity while continuing to defy it, which make up the texture of grassroots life in contemporary Poland."
- Walter D. Connor, Harvard University
A quarter century later, the book was published in Polish by TRIO publishers, Warsaw. Read the Introduction to the Polish edition of The Private Poland (Prywatna Polska). |
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