International Politics

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BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Peter Coy	Lesson From Abroad: Make Them Mandatory At first blush it seems fair and reasonable to let Americans opt in or out of personal accounts. But if the experience of other nations is any guide, personal accounts usually work better when they're mandatory.
InternetNews January 10, 2005 Erin Joyce	IBM'S PC Diplomacy Since IBM's announcement last month that it would sell its PC division to China's PC maker Lenovo for $1.75 billion, we've heard little about how it might impact China's relations with the United States. Perhaps a closer look is in order.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Rossant & Crock	Can The U.S. And Europe Make Up? As U.S.-European relations heal, along comes the thorny issue of weapons sales to China.
Reason January 2005 Cathy Young	The Problem with Putin It will be a bitter historical irony if Putin's Russia becomes America's authoritarian pal in the War on Terror---and all the more ironic if its friendship is as unreliable as it is morally compromising.
Reason January 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Iraq's Summer Soldiers When the invasion of Iraq was still in its notional phase, a coalition of liberal hawks joined the president in arguing for the war as a Progressive intervention. It is in the open-ended occupation that they lost their nerve.
Reason January 2005	Hayek for the 21st Century Biographer Bruce Caldwell discusses F.A. Hayek's (author of The Road to Serfdom) enduring lessons about bad economic planning, distributed information, and the liberating power of choice.
Reason January 2005 Michael Young	Imperial Waltz Is American power good, bad, or distressingly reluctant? Book reviews: Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, by Niall Ferguson... An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, by David Frum and Richard Perle... etc.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2005 John S. McClenahen	Doha Unfinished World trade talks miss one deadline and may not be complete in 2005. Is a manufacturing free-trade agreement an alternative? Nevertheless, two templates for an agreement limited to manufacturing, which accounts for nearly 60% of world trade, do exist.
Financial Advisor January 2005 Evan Simonoff	Why A Soft Dollar Doesn't Spell Doomsday China and Japan must help the U.S. in order to help themselves. A major U.S. recession would slam-dunk Asian export-driven economies and send unemployment in the region through the roof.
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Roman Olearchyk	Ukraine: Why The Road West Will Be Rocky Many in Europe are reluctant to start the process that could bring Ukraine into NATO and the EU for fear of poisoning relations with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.
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