International Politics

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BusinessWeek March 7, 2005	Dublin And London Step Up Pressure Both the British and Irish governments are making moves to marginalize Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the Irish Republican Army, unless it helps break the deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Reason March 2005 Julian Sanchez	Gimme Shelters The benefits of tax havens.
Reason March 2005 Jesse Walker	Copyrighting the Air The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) met in Geneva to negotiate a new broadcasting treaty.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Data: Ride 'Em Cowboy Many Europeans believe that Americans commonly work three jobs to make ends meet, and that low U.S. unemployment is entirely due to the high proportion of the population that's incarcerated.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Stan Crock	Why Iran Can Thumb Its Nose At Washington With Washington long on rhetoric and short on action, it's no surprise the Bush team's threats to change Iran's regime and end its nuclear program are cowing few Iranians.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Laura Cohn	What Price Pollution? In Europe, the Kyoto Protocol is spurring a brisk market in emission credits. Under the program, banks and exchanges are preparing to service some 12,000 industrial installations across the EU.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005	Bush and Putin: Strains Are Showing While both governments are expected to remain pragmatic on a number of issues, their diverging visions could become the real problem
Scientific American March 2005	Relief Is Not Enough Tsunami relief does not replace development. The U.S. and other industrial nations need to be more forthcoming with aid outside of calamitous times.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 John Rossant	An Arms Cornucopia For China? Europe will probably lift its embargo in spite of objections by the U.S., but companies will be careful what they sell.
Reason February 2005 Ronald Bailey	The U.N. vs. Cloning In September 2004 President Bush strongly endorsed a United Nations resolution, proposed by Costa Rica, for a global treaty that would completely ban both reproductive cloning (that is, cloning to produce a baby) and therapeutic cloning.
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