View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Washington University St. Louis: Open Scholarship Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 7 Issue 3 2008 Feeling Good or Doing Good: Inefficacy of the U.S. Unilateral Sanctions Against the Military Government of Burma/Myanmar Thihan Myo Nyun Case Western Reserve University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Thihan Myo Nyun, Feeling Good or Doing Good: Inefficacy of the U.S. Unilateral Sanctions Against the Military Government of Burma/Myanmar, 7 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 455 (2008), https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol7/iss3/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Global Studies Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FEELING GOOD OR DOING GOOD: INEFFICACY OF THE U.S. UNILATERAL SANCTIONS AGAINST THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF BURMA/MYANMAR THIHAN MYO NYUN∗ TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION........................................................................................ 457 I. SANCTIONS AS ECONOMIC STATECRAFT ............................................. 461 A. Economic Sanctions Defined and Distinguished..................... 463 1. Economic Sanctions Defined........................................... 464 2. Unilateral and Multilateral Sanctions Distinguished ..... 465 B. Unilateral Sanctions As a Tool for Foreign Policy................. 466 1. The Logic Behind Unilateral Sanctions Policy ............... 467 2. Foreign Policy Goals and Motivations Behind the Sanctions ......................................................................... 468 C. U.S.