Iraq and Iran
A Persian Journey: Impressions from Visiting Iran (January 2008) [personal narrative]
“Destroying Security: The Folly of Bombing Iran,” issue brief, Fourth Freedom Forum, http://www.destroyingsecurity.org (25 January 2008).
“The Movement against War in Iraq,” Nonviolent Social Change, the Bulletin of the Manchester College Peace Studies Institute, Manchester, IN, (November 2007): Volume 34. [article]
Behind the Sanctions Against Iran [streaming audio] Bryant Park Radio Program, NPR, October 29, 2007.
The U.S. has announced new sanctions against Iran, which some see as a way to avoid war and others as a precursor to it. David Cortright, author of Sanctions and the Search for Security and The Sanctions Decade, explores the implications.
“Cease fire in Iraq,” Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, with Robert G. Gard, Jr. (February 5, 2007). [article]
“The World Says No: The Global Movement against War in Iraq,” The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Ramesh Thakur (United Nations University Press Publisher, November 2006): 75-91. [chapter]
The Smarter U.S. Option: A Full Summit with Iran, with George A. Lopez. Policy Brief No. 11, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (June 2006). [policy brief]
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“Denuking Iran: Washington Calls the Kettle Black,” Sojourners, (April 2006): 7. [article]
“Peaceful Superpower: Movement Against War in Iraq.” In Charting Transnational Democracy, Janie Leatherman & Julie Webber, (Palgrave MacMillan Publisher, 2005): 75-99. [chapter]
“Iraq: The Human Toll,” The Nation (July 2005). [web article]
“Time to Leave,” Sojourners (June 2005): 7. [article]
“Progress in Iraqi Freedom Stained by Growing Hardship,” opinion editorial, The Christian Science Monitor (7 June 2005). [article]
“Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked,” Foreign Affairs 83, no. 4 (July/August 2004): 1-14. [article]
A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement against War in Iraq (Goshen, Ind.: Fourth Freedom Forum, 2004). [book]
“Bush’s New Iraq: Rhetoric vs. Reality,” with George A. Lopez, Chicago Tribune (26 May 2004) sec. 1, 27. [article]
“How to End the Occupation of Iraq: A U.S. Exit Strategy,” War Times (May-June 2004) no. 17, 5. [article]
“The Real Failure in Intelligence on Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, The Boston Globe (11 March 2004): A19. [article]
“Sanctions, Inspections and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq,” with Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez. In Iraq: Threat and Response, Gerhard Beestermöller and David Little, (Münster, Germany: Lit Verlag, 2003): 127-147. [chapter]
Unproven: The Controversy over Justifying War in Iraq, with Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber. Policy Brief 8, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (June 2003). [policy brief]
“The Oil Spoils,” The Nation (16 June 2003): 4-5. [article]
End Game? Removing Sanctions in Iraq, with Alistair Miller, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber. Policy Brief 11, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (19 May 2003). [policy brief]
“The Progress of UN Disarmament in Iraq,” La Vanguardia (Barcelona, 5 February 2003). [article]
Contested Case: Do the Facts Justify the Case for War in Iraq? with Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez and Linda Gerber. Policy Brief, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (January 2003). [policy brief]
“Como Desarmar a Iraq sin Guerra.” La Vanguardia (13 October 2002). [article]
Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq, with George A. Lopez, and Alistair Millar. Policy Brief, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (October 2002). [policy brief]
“Why Not Attack Iraq?” Sojourners (July-August 2002): 15. [article]
Sanctions, Inspections, and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq, with Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez. Policy Brief F3, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (June 2002). [policy brief]
“Legal Basis for UN Weapons Inspections.” In Iraq: A New Approach, Joseph Cirincione and Jessica T. Mathews, (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 2002). [chapter]
“A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions,” The Nation (3 December 2001): 20, 22, 24. [article]
Sanctions Sans Commitment: An Assessment of UN Arms Embargoes, with George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber. Policy Report presented at Project Ploughshares Forum on International Arms Embargoes and the Case of Iraq, Toronto (November 2001). Waterloo: Project Ploughshares (May 2002). [policy brief in PDF]
Smart Sanctions: Restructuring UN Policy In Iraq, with Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez. Policy Report, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (April 2001). [policy brief]
“Seeking an Iraqi Endgame,” Sojourners (November/ December 2000): 13. [article]
“For Security and Humanity, Lift Trade Sanctions on Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Herald-Journal, Syracuse, N.Y. (August 2000). [article]
“Rethinking Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W. Va. (August 2000). [article]
“End UN Sanctions Against Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (20 August 1999): B7. [article]
“A New Policy Toward Iraq,” The San Francisco Chronicle (8 December 1998).
“Trouble in the Gulf: Pain and Promise,” with George A. Lopez, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54, no. 3, (May/June 1998): 39-43. [article]
“What To Do About Iraq? The Moral Dilemma of Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez, Sojourners 27, no. 2, (March/ April 1998): 12-13.
“The U.S. Isn’t the World’s Policeman,” Los Angeles Times (5 February 1998); subsequently syndicated in the Kansas City Star, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Albuquerque Journal, Houston Chronicle, and South Bend Tribune.
Political Gain and Civilian Pain: Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions, co-edited with Thomas G. Weiss, George A. Lopez, and Larry Minear (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997). [book]
“Bombs Won’t Budge Saddam,” Christian Science Monitor (5 August 1992).