U.S. — Burma Relations: Peace, Stability and the Transition to Democracy

Abstract

Burma will define the Obama Administration’s foreign policy legacy. Political change in Burma, once unimaginable, is now a bright reality with burgeoning prospects for the future. The ongoing rapprochement between Washington and Naypyidaw over the past four years has been marked by what seemed to be an improbable internal transformation of government under the leadership of Burma’s President Thein Sein. Burma has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to a new national trajectory marked by the goals of ethnic peace, stability and democratic governance.