International Policy

International Policy

The international community has played a large part in Burma’s transition process. Though each country hopes to see peaceful reconciliation and democracy in Burma, policy differences have complicated domestic politics. While countries such as the US and other western countries have supported the opposition’s call for isolationist policies to pressure the junta, others especially in the region have taken a more pragmatic approach of engagement. The contradiction of the two international approaches has effectively cancelled each other out. Western isolationist policy has failed because Burma maintains good and strong relations with other nations, and engagement policy has failed because threats and pressures from isolationist policy continues to fuel the military’s paranoia of losing power and reluctance to cooperate with the opposition.

Burma’s rich natural resources and geopolitical significance as a nexus between China, India and ASEAN make it an important player in the region with countries competing for closer relations. The junta has successfully played this to its advantage to strengthen its position in power.

The recent American policy review to change its isolationist approach towards Burma is a major development and may break the political deadlock in the international community and inside Burma.

International_relations_map

Country	Economic Sanctions	Economic Co-op	Oil & Gas	Aid	International pressure	International Support	Diplomatic dialogue	Military co-op	Arms sales
Australia	X			X	X		X
Bangladesh		X	X			X	X	X
Brunei		X				X	X
Cambodia		X				X	X
Canada	X			X	X
China		X	X	X		X	X	X	X
Egypt		X				X	X
EU	X			X	X
India		X				X	X	X	X
Indonesia		X				X	X
Iran		X				X	X
Israel		X				X	X		X
Japan		X		X	X		X
Kuwait		X					X
Laos		X				X	X	X
Malaysia		X				X	X
New Zealand	X				X
North Korea		X				X	X	X	X
Pakistan		X				X	X		X
Philippines		X			X	X	X
Russia		X	X			X	X	X	X
Saudi Arabia		X					X
Singapore		X	X			X	X
South Korea		X	X	X			X
Sri Lanka		X				X	X	X
Thailand		X	X			X
USA	X				X		X
Vietnam		X				X	X	X
Zimbabwe						X	X

Last Updated on Thursday, 06 May 2010 06:27

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