“United Nations Sanctions and Nuclear Weapons” by George A. Lopez and David Cortright, in The United Nations and Nuclear Orders, edited by Jane Boulden, Ramesh Thakur, and Thomas Weiss (United Nations University Press, 2009) pp. 111-131.
“Targeted Sanctions, Counter-Terrorism and Strategic Peace-Building” by George A. Lopez and David Cortright, in Strategies of Peace, edited by Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers (Oxford University Press, 2009) pp. 169-188.
“The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions Since 1990” by David Cortright, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf in The United Nations Security Council and War, edited by Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum (Oxford University Press, 2008) pp. 205-225.
The U.S. has announced new sanctions against Iran. David Cortright explores the implications.
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This report was the culmination of the “Security Council Counterterrorism Review Project” and highlights the successes and shortcomings of the post–September 2001 Security Council counterterrorism program and the steps that can be taken to improve it, in particular the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.
David Cortright affirms sanctions as an effective instrument to economically harm the leaders of the ruling military regime, but more importantly, to send a message of support and solidarity to the democracy movement within the country.
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Proceedings from a sanctions symposium sponsored in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations. Co-sponsoring organizations included The Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute, The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and the Stockholm Process on Targeted Sanctions at Uppsala University.
“Sanctions” by David Cortright, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (Oxford University Press, 2007) pp. 349-369.
“Sanctions and Stability Pacts: The Economic Tools of Peacemaking” by David Cortright in Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods & Techniques, rev. ed., edited by I. William Zartman (United States Institute of Peace, 2007) pp. 385-418.
“Bombs, Carrots & Sticks: The Use of Incentives and Sanctions” by David Cortright and George A. Lopez, Arms Control Today, vol. 35, no. 2 (March 2005).
