How to Toughen Russia Sanctions
Journal Article — 19 September 2025
“How to Toughen Russia Sanctions,” by David Cortright, The National Interest, (19 September 2025).
Journal Article — 19 September 2025
“How to Toughen Russia Sanctions,” by David Cortright, The National Interest, (19 September 2025).
“Turning Trump’s Peace Overtures into Sustainable Deals,” by Peter J. Quaranto and George A. Lopez, Just Security, (19 September 2025).
“A Framework for Proactively — and Rapidly — Lifting Sanctions on Syria,” by Alistair Millar and Stephen J. Fallon, Just Security, (5 June 2025).
“To Support Peace Efforts, the West Needs a Coordinated Way to Effectively Reduce Sanctions,” by Stephen J. Fallon and George A. Lopez, Just Security, (27 February 2025).
This study by the Fourth Freedom Forum’s 2024 Howard S. Brembeck Fellow, Amina Ahmed, emphasizes the critical role the Afghan diaspora plays in lobbying their host nations for meaningful support for Afghans in Afghanistan, refugees, and those trapped in limbo without legal status in countries like Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. In essence, this brief serves as a call to action for the diaspora to organize and advocate effectively for their fellow Afghans.
Report — December 2023
This report is a project of the New Paradigm Project, which is made possible with support from the Fourth Freedom Forum, the Colombe Foundation, the Jubitz Foundation, the Chino Cienega Foundation, Cynda Collins Arsenault, Rockefeller Family Associates, and the Samuel Rubin Foundation. The New Paradigm project assesses the costs and consequences of overly militarized U.S. policies that led to failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries, and diverted trillions of dollars from needed investment at home. The project examines the advantages of cooperative multilateral approaches to international security based on principles of human rights and military restraint. The project produces analyses and policy proposals for greater reliance on diplomacy, peacebuilding, development, economic statecraft, and participatory governance as means of preventing armed conflict and violent extremism.
“Delays, half-measures and bad enforcement are hurting Ukraine’s cause,” by Anna Romandash and David Cortright, Eurativ, (2 November 2023).
Made possible with support from the European Union, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the German Federal Foreign Office, the Securing the Future Initiative (a project of The Soufan Center and the Fourth Freedom Forum) launched in September 2021 on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
This report provides an independent review and assessment of the United Nations Security Council’s counterterrorism activities over the past two decades. The report’s findings and recommendations are informed by desk research, surveys, and numerous off-the-record interviews with experts and practitioners, and the authors’ combined experience of working on multilateral counterterrorism issues for more than 50 years.
“Five Goals For Ethical Post-sanctions Peacebuilding,” by George A. Lopez and Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner, Peace News, (September 2022).
This study by the Fourth Freedom Forum’s New Paradigm Project examines the alternative security approaches that were available at the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2002, and examines alternatives to document that the war was unnecessary and to highlight the policy advantages of multilateral nonmilitary security strategies.
