Janine Wedel is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Previous award recipients include Mikhail Gorbachev and Samuel Huntington. More...

"Janine Wedel's admirable new book,... argues, convincingly, that the lack of accountability on both sides ultimately compromised all those involved...Aid, it would seem, can hurt as well as help."
- The Wall Street Journal

Shadow Elite: The New Agents of Power and Influence.
is about the new ways that today's movers and shakers brandish power and influence, the new rules they are writing themselves, and the implications for democracy.

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