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February 7, 2010

End of American Era in Northern Ireland

Niall Stanage, Daily Beast

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Though the agreement can plausibly be called a breakthrough, its historic significance is as much about the roles of America and Britain as diplomatic brokers as it is about the incremental progress in stabilizing Northern Ireland’s power-sharing administration.

It is, in many respects, the end of an era in great-powers diplomacy.

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