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Financial Times
January 5, 2001.

Russia turns its back on western aid. (Excerpt)

Andrew Jack

"Janine Wedel, a US academic, argued in her book Collision and Collusion that western assistance to Russia focused on supporting a small circle of individuals - the young liberal reformers - rather than on specific policies. When these individuals fell out of favour, so did the foreign sponsors and their programmes."

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Financial Times
May 18, 2007.

World Bank affair 'sign of US impunity'. (Excerpt)

Guy Dinmore

"Janine Wedel, a professor at George Mason University's school of public policy, says the Bush administration fast earned the reputation of trampling over the rules.

"Wolfowitz, with the neoconservative ethos that American power can reshape the world, is part of this culture. The idea is that our values and our needs and our demands trump everyone else's, that we can do what we want because we are Americans," she said.

"Wolfowitz is part of the neoconservative core, with a long record of trying to privatise US foreign policy to carry through its agenda," commented Ms Wedel, who is writing a book on the "shadow elite" of the networked neoconservatives. "This group often runs rough-shod over established standards and practices."

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