David Cortright

• University of Notre Dame

The development and reform of smart sanctions makes them a critical element of strategic peacebuilding, specifically in their ability to restrict war and to counter terrorism. Lopez and Cortright examine the shortcomings and lessons learned from counter-terrorism efforts, in particular those led by the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and Count...

Legal scholar Erika de Wet and sanctions expert David Cortright team up to analyze the core principles of international human rights law in relation to the procedures for the imposition of targeted sanctions by the UN Security Council and the European Union. They define core legal standards such as the right to an effective remedy and the right to...

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda. But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what mea...

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda.But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what mean...

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda. But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what mea...

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda. But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what mea...

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda. But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what mea...

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda.But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what mean...

This article looks at sanctions and the UN sanctions policy, the latter having matured significantly since 1990. The article provides an overview of all UN sanctions and discusses the UN sanctions against Iraq. The humanitarian impact of sanctions and the controversies surrounding it are discussed. The article also discusses sanctions assistance mi...

This is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council’s part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945. Both during and after the Cold War the Council has acted in a limited and selective manner, and its work has sometimes resulted in failure. It has not been - and was never equipped to be - the...

1 In the United States opposition to the war and military occupation led to the creation of a large scale sustained antiwar movement, which has helped to make Iraq the dominant political issue in the country. In this essay I review the extent and nature of the Iraq antiwar movement, describing the mammoth scale of global protest prior to the invasi...

From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004 Summary: The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has prompted much handwringing over the problems with prewar intelligence. Too little attention has been paid, however, to the flip slide of the picture: that the much-maligned UN-enforced sanctions regime actually worked. Contrary to what critic...

Books reviewed in this article: Andrew E. Hunt, The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War Richard Moser, The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era

Since Neville Chamberlain's concessions to Adolph Hitler in Munich in 1938, appeasement has become a term of disrepute. The word is almost an epithet, denoting weakness in the face of aggression. Generations of scholars and policymakers have learned the lesson that appeasement emboldens the aggressor and makes war more likely. Academic attention ha...

Hedley Bull challenged both the realist and liberal theories of international relations. He could not fully accept either the realists' obsession with power seeking and power balancing, or the moralizing impulses of the idealist theorists. Instead he developed a third way which posited the existence of an international society where sovereign state...

Siva - PerkovichGeorge: India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation. (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 597. $39.95.) - Volume 62 Issue 4 - David Cortright

In April 1995, the world's nations will gather in New York to determine the future of nuclear weapons policy. In so doing they will also determine the prospects for human survival. At issue is the fate of the Nuclear Non‐Proliferation Treaty, the NPT. Will nuclear weapons continue to spread around the world and lead some day to atomic war, or can t...

Debates the impetus behind the easing of Cold War tensions. Suggests that political pressure, through the organized campaigns of peace movements in the United States and Europe, created a political climate in Washington for arms control and restraint. (LZ)

Economic sanctions have been used by nations to coerce other nations for many years. Sanctions can be used to deter aggresion, defend human rights, and discourage nuclear proliferation. This article brings up several questions concerning the utility of sanctions, regardless of whether they are employed by the United Nations, a group of nations, or...

Review of The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam 1965–1973 by Shelby L. Stanton. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.