The Progress of UN Disarmament in Iraq: An Assessment Report

By David Cortright, Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez, and Linda M. Gerber

Report — 23 January 2003

This report provides an assessment of the intensive inspection activity of UN weapons monitors in Iraq, which was mandated in Security Council Resolution 1441 in 2002. Issued just after the January 27 update to the Security Council on UN inspections provided by chief of operations, Hans Blix, the report concurs with Blix’s assessment that “Iraq has on the whole cooperated rather well so far” with UN inspectors.

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Sanctions, Inspections and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq

By David Cortright, Alistair Millar, and George A. Lopez

Book chapter — 2003

“Sanctions, Inspections and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq” by David Cortright, Alistair Millar, and George A. Lopez in Iraq: Threat and Response, edited by Gerhard Beestermöller and David Little (LitVerlag, 2003) pp. 127-147.

A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War

By Glen Rangwala, Nathanial Hurd, and Alistair Millar

Book chapter — 2003

“A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War,” by Glen Rangwala, Nathanial Hurd, and Alistair Millar in The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions, ed. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).

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Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq

By David Cortright, George A. Lopez, and Alistair Millar

Report — October 2002

Joint Resolution 114 of the Congress of the United States stipulates that if the president decides to use force he must certify why “diplomatic or other peaceful means” will not adequately meet U.S. interests. This report shows that peaceful and diplomatic options are available and can be successfully implemented to achieve U.S. objectives.

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Sanctions, Inspections, and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq

By David Cortright, Alistair Millar, and George A. Lopez

Report — June 2002

This study outlines practical policy options for reducing and containing the Iraqi weapons threat without resort to armed force. It suggests steps for reformulating UN sanctions in Iraq. It proposes a diplomatic bargaining strategy for gaining Iraqi compliance with renewed UN weapons inspections. And it calls for the development of an “enhanced containment” system of financial controls and externally based border monitoring to limit Iraq’s military potential and prevent the regime from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.

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Sanctions Sans Commitment: An Assessment of UN Arms Embargoes

By David Cortright, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber

Report — April 2002

This report provides preliminary analysis of what recent arms embargo cases reveal about how to improve the implementation and enforcement of arms embargoes.  It also discusses some of the recommendations for arms embargoes formulated at the recently concluded Bonn-Berlin high level meetings on this policy area.

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Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action

By David Cortright and George A. Lopez

Book — 2002

Following the publication of The Sanctions Decade — lauded as the definitive history and accounting of United Nations sanctions in the 1990s — David Cortright and George Lopez continue their collaboration to examine the changing context and meaning of sanctions and the security dilemmas that the Security Council now faces.

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Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft

By David Cortright and George A. Lopez, eds.

Book — 2002

In recent years, international attention has turned toward the use of targeted, “smart” sanctions that minimize unintended humanitarian consequences and focus coercive pressure on responsible decision makers. Some of the world’s leading sanctions experts and practitioners join together in this book to provide the first published account of the emerging theory and practice of smart sanctions. The essays examine recent uses of targeted financial sanctions, travel sanctions, and arms embargoes, and offer recommendations for improving their design and implementation.

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