Section 3: Butler Britain
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Conservatives and Russia
/ Sam Bright (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Documents the culture and political consequences of the Bullingdon Club network — connects Boris Johnson, David Cameron and George Osborne’s social formation to their governance failures.
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When the Counters Rule the Commons
/ Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington
Author’s page; cited in Counters/Commons
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Mirror Stage — Cold War Records
NARA conference and records page
Section 2: Post-Soviet Transition & the New Russia
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USSR Collapse
/ Wikipedia / academic sources
Overview of the Balcerowicz Plan — the Polish “shock therapy” programme designed with Jeffrey Sachs and implemented from January 1990; the template for post-communist economic transformation across the region.
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Israel — Nuclear Programme
/ Wilson Center — Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
The companion archive linked from the Israeli Nuclear History page
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The Unspoken War Part I-B
/ Observatoire des multinationales
Investigation of Atlas-affiliated groups in France/EU. Flag: engaged outlet — corroborate specific organisational claims
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The Power Below — EU Social Rights
Flag: personal-site host (gesd.free.fr) — prefer the journal DOI for citation
Section 5: European Institutions & Influence Operations
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Disinformation Campaigns
/ Peter Oborne (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Former Daily Telegraph chief political commentator’s account of systematic political lying by Johnson and Trump — documents the normalisation of dishonesty in Anglophone democratic politics.
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Contemporary Far Right (PROVISIONAL — pending framing decision)
/ Corporate Europe Observatory
CEO investigation of transnational alliances targeting civil-society freedoms. Flag: advocacy organisation — use for leads, corroborate independently
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Nuclear Thread — Shadow Economies VI
/ Mohamed ElBaradei (Bloomsbury)
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Mirror States — Continental Viewpoints
/ Thomas Gomart (IFRI) / Bocconi IEP
Gomart (director of IFRI) on Europe’s strategic position; Bocconi event page
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The Blair-Berlusconi Nexus — Political Complicity and Organised Crime
/ Alberto Vannucci (Em Debate / University of Pisa ARPI), 2012
Academic analysis of the Mani Pulite anti-corruption inquiry and its structural impact on Italian politics — covers Tangentopoli, the collapse of the First Republic, and the emergence of Berlusconi.
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The Power Below — The Nordic Model
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The Power Below — The Nordic Model
Severance deals with confidentiality clauses emptied the picket line
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The Power Below — The Nordic Model
Note: the dossier text elsewhere says 1,027 days — check which figure to use
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Contemporary Far Right (PROVISIONAL — pending framing decision)
/ Maurice Stierl / The Guardian
Guardian comment on a decade of EU border externalisation. Flag: opinion/advocacy register — cite as perspective
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The Unspoken War Part II
/ McGill University (eScholarship thesis)
Thesis PDF; the scholarly treatment of the CACC
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Finance Laundering — Laundering Mechanisms
Private Eye–BBC special report; direct PDF; supporting file in Butler Britain Section IV
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The Blair-Berlusconi Nexus — Political Complicity and Organised Crime
/ Treccani (Enciclopedia Italiana)
Treccani encyclopaedia entry on Tangentopoli — the systemic bribery scandal that defined Italian politics from 1992; authoritative Italian reference source.
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Papers and Academic Studies
TJN analysis of how tax systems have been captured by offshore interests
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The Power Below — Breaking the Unions
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NSA — EU-US Relations
/ European Commission, 28 July 1993
European Commission annual report on the TACIS technical assistance programme to the former Soviet republics — documents the scale and direction of EU engagement with the post-Soviet transition in its first two years.
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The Oligarch Files
/ Tax Justice Network (2020)
TJN analysis of systemic corruption and oligarchic capture of democratic systems
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The Power Below — From Cold War to the SDGs
/ Seth Borenstein (Global Policy Forum archive)
