In a recent post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog, Strauss Center Senior Fellow Rana Siu Inboden discusses the need and opportunity for the Obama Administration to rethink and refocus its Burma policy. In the blog post, “It’s Not Too Late for the Obama Administration to Reboot Reform in Burma,” Inboden argues that U.S. policy has been too quick in rewarding a Burmese regime that has failed to live up to its promises of democratic reform and respect for human rights.

Inboden argues that the Obama Administration’s “once heralded strategic opening to Burma is unraveling.” Rather the Obama Administration should utilize range of diplomatic tools to discourage backsliding and incentivize progress.