Learning from the Sanctions Decade
Journal article — Summer 2000
“Learning from the Sanctions Decade” by George A. Lopez and David Cortright, Global Dialogue, vol. 2, no. 3 (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).
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.
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.
“A Marshall Plan for the Balkans” by David Cortright, Sojourners, (September/October 1999).
“End UN Sanctions against Iraq” by David Cortright and George A. Lopez, The Los Angeles Times, 20 August 1999.
“Sanctions and the Search for Peace in Yugoslavia” by David Cortright, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 1999.
“Give Peace a Chance Before Balkans Spin Out of Control” by David Cortright and Alistair Millar, Defense News, 12 April 1999.
“Are Sanctions Just? The Problematic Case of Iraq” by David Cortright and George A. Lopez, Journal of International Affairs, vol. 52, no. 2 (Spring 1999).
To gain a more accurate picture of sanctions-related mortality in Iraq, the Fourth Freedom Forum and Kroc Institute commissioned public health specialist Richard Garfield of Columbia University to conduct an independent study. In this study the author evaluates the studies that have been conducted on Iraq to date and takes a fresh look at possible new methodologies for determining sanctions-related mortality, especially for children under five years of age.
