Sanctions and Security

“Sanctions and Stability Pacts: The Economic Tools of Peacemaking.” In Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods & Techniques, rev. ed., I. William Zartman (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2007): 385-418. [chapter]

“Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf. In The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007): 349-369. [chapter] 

Behind the Sanctions Against Iran,” Bryant Park Project, NPR, interview, October 29, 2007. [streaming audio]

U.S. Punishes Myanmar’s Leadership; Will It Help? ” All Things Considered, NPR, interview, September 27, 2007 [streaming audio]

Cease fire in Iraq,” Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, with Robert G. Gard, Jr. (February 5, 2007). [article]

The Smarter U.S. Option: A Full Summit with Iran, with George A. Lopez. Policy Brief No. 11, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (June 2006). [policy brief]

Implementing Targeted Sanctions: the Role of International Agencies and Regional Organizations,” with Linda Gerber and George Lopez. In International Sanctions: Between Words and Wars in the Global System, Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano, (New York, NY and Canada: Frank Cass Publisher, 2005): 144-158. [chapter]

A Sanctions Coordinator: Options for Enhancing Compliance,” with George Lopez. In International Sanctions: Between Words and Wars in the Global System, Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano, (New York, NY and Canada: Frank Cass Publisher, 2005): 65-74. [chapter]

Iraq: The Human Toll,” The Nation (July 2005). [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]

Bombs, Carrots & Sticks: The Use of Incentives and Sanctions,” Arms Control Today, with George A. Lopez (March 2005): 19-24. [article]

Reforming Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez. In The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century, David M. Malone, (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2004): 167-179. [chapter]

Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked,” Foreign Affairs 83, no. 4 (July/August 2004): 1-14. [article]

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): 127-47. [chapter]

Weapons of Mass Deception,” Sojourners (September/ October 2003): 15. [article]

Toward a More Secure America: Grounding U.S. Policy in Global Realities, with Alistair Millar, Linda Gerber, and George A. Lopez, a joint project of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (September 2003). [policy brief in PDF]

Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft & State Sponsors of Terrorism, by Meghan O’Sullivan. Review essay in Political Studies Review (August 2003). [review]

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]

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]

Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action, with George A. Lopez (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, June 2002). [book]

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]

Appeasement in International Politics, by Stephen R. Rock. Review essay in American Political Science Review (March 2002): 271. [review]

Smarting under Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez. In The World Today (London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, March 2002): 1-3. [article]

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: Targeting Economic Statecraft, co-edited with George A. Lopez (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., April 2002). [book]

Powers of Persuasion: Sanctions and Incentives in the Shaping of International Society,” International Studies (New Delhi, India 38, no. 2, 2001): 113-25. [article]

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]

“Re-energizing Sanctions,” with Alistair Millar, San Francisco Chronicle (January 2001). [article]

Seeking an Iraqi Endgame,” Sojourners (November/ December 2000): 13. [article]

“The Limits of Coercion,” with George A. Lopez, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November/December 2000): 18-20. [article]

Toward Ethical Economic Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez, America (25 November 2000): 18-22. [article]

“Lift Trade Sanctions While Maintaining Arms Embargoes,” with George A. Lopez, Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (August 2000). [article]

“Sanctioning Humanity,” with George A. Lopez, St. Paul Pioneer Press (August 2000). [article]

“Rethinking Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W. Va. (August 2000). [article]

“For Security and Humanity, Lift Trade Sanctions on Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Herald-Journal, Syracuse, N.Y. (August 2000). [article]

Learning from the Sanctions Decade,” with George A. Lopez and Julia Wagler, Global Dialogue 2, no. 3, (Summer 2000): 11-24. [article]

Positive Inducements in International Statecraft,” Fraser Forum. Based on a paper of the same title commissioned by the Fraser Institute (10-11 June 2000). [article]

The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s, with George A. Lopez (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000). [book]

“Sanctions and Incentives as Tools of Economic Statecraft,” with George A. Lopez. In Globalization and Global Governance, Raimo Vayrynen, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999): 105-125. [chapter]

A Marshall Plan for the Balkans,” Sojourners 28, no. 5, (September/October 1999): 9. [article]

End UN Sanctions Against Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (20 August 1999): B7. [article]

“Sanctions Could Still Help Resolve Kosovo Situation,” The Elkhart Truth (24 May 1999). [article]

Sanctions and the Search for Peace in Yugoslavia,” The Christian Science Monitor (12 May 1999). [article]

“Give Peace a Chance Before Balkans Spin Out of Control,” Defense News (14 April 1999). [article]

Are Sanctions Just? The Problematic Case of Iraq,” with George A. Lopez. In Journal of International Affairs 52, no. 2, (Spring 1999): 735-755. [article]

Time for A New Option in Iraq,” The San Francisco Chronicle (8 December 1998). [article]

Sanctions: Modify ‘em,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54, no. 5 (September/October 1998): 22-24. [article]

“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. [article]

“Carrots, Sticks, and Cooperation: Economic Tools of Statecraft,” with George A. Lopez. In Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action, Preventive Action Reports 2, Barnett R. Rubin, (New York: The Century Foundation Press, March 1998): 113-114. [chapter]

Toward More Humane and Effective Sanctions Management: Enhancing The Capacity Of The United Nations System, with George A. Lopez, Larry Minear, Julia Wagler, and Thomas G. Weiss, Occasional Paper #31, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University (Providence, R.I., March 1998).

“Economic Sanctions and Human Rights: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?” with George A. Lopez. The International Journal of Human Rights 1, no. 2, (September 1997): 1-25. [article]

“Targeted Financial Sanctions: The Key to a ‘Smart’ Sanctions Policy,” Die Friedens-Warte 72, no. 4, (1997): 327-336. [article] 

“Carrots and Cooperation in South Asia,” with Amitabh Mattoo. In The Price of Peace: The Role of Incentives in International Conflict Prevention, David Cortright, Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (1997). Commissioned by The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. [chapter]

The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention, editor (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997), commissioned by The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. [book]

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]

“Besser als ihr Ruf: die Wirksamkeit von Sanktionen,” der überblick, 2/96, Hamburg, Germany (June 1996). [article]

“Incentives and International Conflict Prevention: Benefits and Hazards,” The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Report 10 (Spring 1996): 1-4. [article]

Smart Sanctions on Nigeria,” with George A. Lopez, The Christian Science Monitor (10 January 1996).
“Success of UN Remarkable,” South Bend Tribune (13 October 1995). [article]

“Humanitarian Sanctions? The Moral and Political Issues,” Human Rights Brief 3, no. 1, Washington, D.C.: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University (Fall 1995). [article]

“Used Well, Economic Sanctions Can Work to Resolve Conflicts,” The Elkhart Truth (16 July 1995). [article]

Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in a Post-Cold War World? co-edited with George A. Lopez (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995).  [book]

“The Sanctions Era: An Alternative to Military Intervention,” with George A. Lopez. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 19, no. 2, (May 1995). [article]

Prescription for a Civilized World (Sanctions) ,” with Howard Brembeck, Inforum, no. 14, (Summer 1994). [article]

“Sanctions: Control Without Bullets,” Chicago Tribune (14 August 1993). [article]

“Pacifists in Search of Response in Bosnia,” San Francisco Chronicle (13 May 1993). [article]

“Economic Sanctions: Do They Work?” with George A. Lopez, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 49, no. 9 (November 1993). [article]

Bombs Won’t Budge Saddam,” Christian Science Monitor (5 August 1992). [article]

Can Democracy Stand It?” The Nation (16 October 1976). [article]