In Search of the Fourth Freedom offers a timely and provocative prescription for reducing the growing threat posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It goes beyond conventional thinking in challenging the world to replace the law of force with the force of law. It proposes a common-sense international security system based on law and enforced by economic power.
“Ban the Bomb II,” by David Cortright in Sojourners, January-February 1999.
“Sanctions: Modify ’em” by David Cortright and Samina Ahmed, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (September/October 1998), pp. 22-24.
“Public Opinion and Nuclear Options for South Asia” by Samina Ahmed, David Cortright, and Amitabh Mattoo, Asian Survey, vol. 38, no. 8 (August 1998).
Through the lens of a comprehensive survey of Pakistani public attitudes toward nuclear weapons policy, this volume provides an in-depth view of the nuclear choices facing Pakistan. Based on the most thorough survey of Pakistani public opinion on nuclear policy ever conducted, Pakistan and the Bomb examines the factors that brought a de facto nuclear arms competition to South Asia. Pakistan and the Bomb democratizes the debate over nuclear weapons in South Asia by highlighting a new generation of young Pakistani authors.
Edited by David Cortright, director of policy studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute, The Price of Peace draws upon leading experts in the fields of nuclear nonproliferation, regional dispute resolution, diplomacy, and international finance to present a systematic analysis of the role of inducements in preventing conflict. The case studies examine the use of incentives in a range of circumstances, and introductory and overview chapters by Cortright provide a unique analysis of the use of incentives in international diplomacy.
This report is the result of the most comprehensive independent investigation ever conducted of Pakistani attitudes toward nuclear weapons. Based on more than 900 30-minute interviews with educated professionals in eight Pakistani cities, it provides candid evidence that concerns about India are the predominant justification for nuclear weapons in Pakistan.
“Elite Public Opinion and Nuclear Weapons Policy in India” by David Cortright and Amitabh Mattoo, Asian Survey, vol. 36, no. 6 (June 1996).
“The Coming of Incrementalism,” by David Cortright in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 52, no. 2 (March/April 1996).
In 1994 the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, in cooperation with the Fourth Freedom Forum, conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of the Indian public’s attitude toward nuclear arms. This book examines the findings of that landmark survey.
