The crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar last week has given rise to the idea of sanctioning a regime.
Imposing sanctions on a country will affect its economy, which in turn affects its citizens. Some officials believe that progress toward democracy can actually be reversed by sanctions. Fareed Zakaria, writing in today's Washington Post, said that one of the lessons that we should have learned from Iraq was that "decades of sanctions destroy civil society and empower the worst elements of the country."
Chang Heng Chee, a speaker at the 2007 World Forum on the Future of Democracy in Williamsburg, Va., talked about the connection between democracy and free markets. Watch her interview here.
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