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The article examines the impact of economic sanctions on human rights in several countries as of December 2015. Human rights in Burma has reportedly remained unsatisfactory especially for the Rohingya population, however, improvements took place starting in 2011. Other topics include the imposition of martial law in China in 1989 to stop democracy demonstrations, the political condition in the U.S. in 1992, and the apartheid and its impact on South Africans. Also discussed are the economic sanctions imposed by the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan on Cuba, Poland's geopolitical role in breaking free from communist oppression and subordination to the Soviet Union, and the failure of economic sanctions to protect human rights.

This article discusses the implications of the 1980 strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland which led to the Independent Self-governing Trade Union "Solidarnose." The transnational implications of this social development and its effects on the relationship between the United States and the rest of the western world is examined from the prospective of the reaction of the Netherlands. The political reactions of both state actors was closely tied to their perceived national interests within the context of the Cold War.