President Obama's announcement that the United States would begin the process of normalizing relations with Cuba will have wide-ranging impacts. For more than 50 years, the United States pursued a sanctions policy designed to isolate Cuba. The goal was to undermine the Castro regime and promote human rights and democratic reform. This policy has failed to achieve any of these goals. Instead of isolating Cuba, America has isolated itself-alienating regional and international partners. For the past 23 years, the United Nations General Assembly has voted to condemn the United States unilateral...