Report — April 2001

This study explores the possibility of an alternative to the UN comprehensive embargo that has been in place since 1990. Our investigation is prompted by the continued erosion of the economic sanctions and the possible breakdown of controls on Iraq’s production of weapons of mass destruction. To the extent that there is a bias in this report, it is in the direction of affirming the role of sanctions as a viable tool of Security Council action when global norms are violated, while aiming that such sanctions be as humane as possible.

Newspaper article — 18 January 2001

“Re-energizing Sanctions,” by David Cortright and Alistair Millar in San Francisco Chronicle, 18 January 2001.

Journal article — 2001

“Powers of Persuasion: Sanctions and Incentives in the Shaping of International Society” by David Cortright, International Studies, vol. 38, no. 2 (2001).

Journal article — November/December 2000

“The Limits of Coercion” by David Cortright and George A. Lopez, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November/December 2000).

Journal article — Summer 2000

“Learning from the Sanctions Decade” by George A. Lopez and David Cortright, Global Dialogue, vol. 2, no. 3 (Summer 2000).

Report — June 2000

“Positive Inducements in International Statecraft” by David Cortright in Fraser Forum. Based on a paper of the same title commissioned by the Fraser Institute (June 2000).

Book — 2000

Since the end of the Cold War, economic sanctions have been a frequent instrument of UN authority, imposed by the Security Council against nearly a dozen targets. Some efforts appear to have been successful, others are more doubtful; all, though, have been controversial. This book is based on more than two hundred interviews with sanctions experts and officials from the UN and many countries. It provides the first comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of UN sanctions during the 1990s.

Newspaper article — 20 August 1999

“End UN Sanctions against Iraq” by David Cortright and George A. Lopez, The Los Angeles Times, 20 August 1999.

Newspaper article — 12 May 1999

“Sanctions and the Search for Peace in Yugoslavia” by David Cortright, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 1999.

Newspaper article — 12 April 1999

“Give Peace a Chance Before Balkans Spin Out of Control” by David Cortright and Alistair Millar, Defense News, 12 April 1999.