COURSES TAUGHT
- Peacebuilding and Public Policy
- How to Change the World: The Strategy and Tactics of Nonviolent Action
- Introduction to Peace Studies
- Contemporary Peace Movements
- War and Peace in the Modern World
- The Role of Sanctions: Ending or Prolonging Wars?
- The UN Counterterrorism Program
BOOKS
- Protest and Policy in the Iraq, Nuclear Freeze and Vietnam Peace Movements (Cambridge University Press Elements, July 2025).
- A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement (New York: New Village Press, 2023); shorter booklet A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement against War in Iraq (Goshen, Ind.: Fourth Freedom Forum, 2004).
- Truth Seekers: Voices of Peace and Nonviolence (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2020); published in an early edition as Buscadors de la Veritat: Veus per la pau i la noviolència (Barcelona: International Catalan Institute for Peace, 2017)
- Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War, co-edited with Barbara Doherty and Ron Carver (New York: New Village Press, 2019)
- Governance for Peace: How Inclusive, Participatory and Accountable Institutions Promote Peace and Prosperity, co-authored with Conor Seyle and Kristin Wall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
- Civil Society, Peace and Power, co-edited with Melanie Greenberg and Laurel Stone (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2016).
- Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict, co-edited with Rachel Fairhurst and Kristen Wall (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2015).
- Ending Obama’s War: Responsible Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2011).
- Towards Nuclear Zero with Raimo Väyrynen (London: IISS, Routledge, 2010).
- Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for A New Political Age, 2nd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2009); first edition Gandhi and Beyond (Paradigm, 2006).
- Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat, co-edited with George A. Lopez (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007).
- Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Haymarket Publishers, Inc., 2005); original edition Soldiers in Revolt: The American Military Today (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975).
- Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action, with George A. Lopez (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002).
- Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft, co-edited with George A. Lopez (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002).
- The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s, with George A. Lopez (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000).
- Pakistan and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options, co-edited with Samina Ahmed (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998 and Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1999).
- 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.
- 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).
- India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options, co-edited with Amitabh Mattoo (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
- Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in a Post–Cold War World? co-edited with George A. Lopez (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995).
- Peace Works: The Citizen’s Role in Ending the Cold War (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993).
- Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies, with Max Watts (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
- “Incentivizing non-proliferation: theory, policy, and experience,” with Thomas Biersteker, in Sanctions for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, eds. Armand Bekaj and Peter Wallensteen (London and New York, Routledge, 2024).
- “Nuclear Realism,” in Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons,” eds. Drew Christiansen, SJ, and Carole Sargent (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023)
- “From Past to Present: Gandhi’s Relevance for Today,” in Gandhi’s Wisdom: Insights from the Founding Father of Modern Psychology in the East, eds. V.K.Kool and Rita Agrawal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
- “The Power of Peace: The moral and political advantages of nonviolence,” in People’s Peace: Prospects for a Human Future, eds. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2019).
- “Dissent and Resistance within the Military During the Vietnam War“ and four other chapters in Waging Peace in Vietnam, co-edited with Barbara Doherty and Ron Carver (New Village Press, 2019)
- “Civil Society to Prevent Violent Extremism,” in The Ecology of Violent Extremism: Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Human Security, edited by Lisa Schirch (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018
- “Conclusion: Civil Society Empowerment in Human Security,” with Melanie Greenberg, Laurel Stone, and Anna Milovanovic, in Civil Society, Peace and Power, edited by David Cortright, Melanie Greenberg and Laurel Stone (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2016).
- “Assessing the Debate on Drone Warfare.” with Rachel Fairhurst, in Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict, edited by David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst and Kristen Wall (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2015).
- “Winning Without War: Evaluating Military and Nonmilitary Strategies for Countering Terrorism.” with Rachel Fairhurst, in Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict, edited by David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst and Kristen Wall (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2015).
- “The Future of Drone Warfare: Research Challenges and Policy Options.” with Rachel Fairhurst, in Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict, edited by David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst and Kristen Wall (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2015).
- “Protest and Politics: How Peace Movements Shape History.” in The Handbook of Global Security Policy, edited by Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), 482-504.
- “PEACE: A History of Movements and Ideas.” in Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader, edited by Charles Webel and Jorgen Johansen (London: Routledge, 2011).
- “Banning the Bomb,” in The Global Activism Reader, edited by Luc Reydams (London: Continuum, 2011), 273-290.
- “Sanctions as Alternatives to War.” with George A. Lopez in The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, edited by Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elger Publishing, 2011).
- “Nonviolence” in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by George T. Kurian et al. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010).
- “Preface.” in Frank van Lierde, Countering the Politics of Fear: Social Activists between Terror and Counter-terror (The Hague: Cordaid, 2010), vii-ix.
- “Targeted Sanctions, Counter-Terrorism and Strategic Peace-Building.” with George A. Lopez, In Strategies of Peace, edited by Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 169-188.
- “United Nations Sanctions and Nuclear Weapons.” with George A. Lopez in The United Nations and Nuclear Orders, edited by Jane Boulden, Ramesh Thakur, and Thomas G. Weiss (United Nations University Press Publisher, 2009): 111-131.
- “Transcending Ambivalence,” in Reflections. “The Fire Next Time: Faith and the Future of Nuclear Weapons,” (Yale Divinity School: Spring 2009), 35-39. https://reflections.yale.edu/article/fire-next-time-faith-and-future-nuclear-weapons/full-issue-fire-next-time-faith-and-future
- “Foreword.” in Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr., Antiwar Soldier: How to Dissent within the Ranks of the Military (New York: Nation Books, 2008), ix-xviii.
- “A Peaceful Superpower: the movement against war in Iraq.” In Peace Movements and Pacifism after September 11, edited by Shin Chiba and Thomas J. Schoenbaum, (Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008): 201-226.
- “The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions since 1990.” with George A. Lopez and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf. In The United Nations Security Council and War, edited by Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 205-225.
- “The Right Fight.” In Peace Not Terror, edited by Mary Susannah Robbins, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008): 15-19.
- “Sanctions and Stability Pacts: The Economic Tools of Peacemaking.” In Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods & Techniques, rev. ed., edited by I. William Zartman, (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2007): 385-418.
- “Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf. In The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007): 349-369.
- “SANE Reborn.” In Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Glen Harold Stassen and Lawrence S. Wittner, (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2007): 47-57.
- “The World Says No: The Global Movement against War in Iraq.” In The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges, edited by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Ramesh Thakur, (United Nations University Press Publisher, November 2006): 75-91.
- “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, edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano, (New York, N.Y. and Canada: Frank Cass Publisher, 2005): 144-158.
- “A Sanctions Coordinator: Options for Enhancing Compliance.” with George Lopez. In International Sanctions: Between Words and Wars in the Global System, edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano, (New York, N.Y. and Canada: Frank Cass Publisher, 2005): 65-74.
- “Peaceful Superpower: Movement Against War in Iraq.” In Charting Transnational Democracy, edited by Janie Leatherman and Julie Webber, (Palgrave MacMillan Publisher, 2005): 75-99.
- “Cooperative Security: The Alternative to Pax Americana.” In War and Border Crossings, Ethics When Cultures Clash, edited by Peter A. French and Jason A. Short, (Boulder, Colo.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005): 59-71.
- “Making the Case for Disarmament. An Analysis of the Palme and Canberra Commissions.” In Global Commissions Assessed, (Finland, Edita Publishing Ltd., April 2005): 59-78.
- “Reforming Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez. In The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century, edited by David M. Malone, (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2004): 167-179.
- “Incentives for Nuclear Restraint: The Role of Inducement Strategies in Controlling Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons,” with Andrea Gabbitas. In Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Emergent Threats in an Evolving Security Environment, edited by Brian Alexander and Alistair Millar, (Dulles, Va.: Brassey’s, July 2003): 129-154.
- “Sanctions, Inspections and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq,” with Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez. In Iraq: Threat and Response, edited by Gerhard Beestermöller and David Little, (Münster, Germany: Lit Verlag, 2003): 127-147.
- “Legal Basis for UN Weapons Inspections.” In Iraq: A New Approach, edited by Joseph Cirincione and Jessica T. Mathews, (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 2002).
- “Sanctions and Incentives as Tools of Economic Statecraft,” with George A. Lopez. In Globalization and Global Governance, edited by Raimo Väyrynen, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999): 105-125
- “Gene LaRocque,” Entry in The Oxford Companion to American Military History, edited by John Whiteclay Chambers II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 382.
- “Bought and Paid for by the Soviet Union.” In Peace is Possible, edited by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, (Geneva, Switzerland: The International Peace Bureau, May 1999): 25–28.
- “The War Against War.” In Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists, edited by Mary Susannah Robbins, (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1999): 224-242.
- “Transnational Activism in the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.” with Ron Pagnucco. In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics, Solidarity Beyond the State, edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, June 1998): 159-174; also in Coalitions and Political Movements: The Lessons of The Nuclear Freeze, edited by Thomas R. Rochon and David S. Meyer, (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997): 81-97.
- “Carrots, Sticks, and Cooperation: Economic Tools of Statecraft.” with George A. Lopez. In Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action, Preventive Action Reports 2, edited by Barnett R. Rubin, (New York: The Century Foundation Press, March 1998): 113-114.
- “Carrots and Cooperation in South Asia,” with Amitabh Mattoo. In The Price of Peace: The Role of Incentives in International Conflict Prevention, edited by David Cortright, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997): 125–154. Commissioned by The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
- “From Nonproliferation to Disarmament.” In Critical Mass: Voices for a Nuclear-Free Future, edited by Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka, (Westfield, N.J.: Open Media and Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 1996).
- “The Peace Movement Role in Ending the Cold War.” In Why the Cold War Ended, edited by Ralph Summy and Michael Salla, (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1995).
- “GI Resistance During the Vietnam War.” In Give Peace A Chance: Essays From the Charles DeBenedetti Memorial Conference on the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, edited by William Hoover and Melvin Small, (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1992).
- “Die GI-Bewegung in Deutschland, 1974/1984.” In Widerstand in der US-Armee: GI-Bewegung in den siebziger Jahren, edited by Dieter Brunn, (West Berlin: Harald Kater Verlag, 1986).
- “Economic Conversion: Retooling for Peace.” In Defense Sense, edited by Congressman Ron Dellums, with R.H. Miller and H. Lee Halterman, (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1983).
- “Unions and Democracy.” In Military Unions: U.S. Trends and Issues, edited by William Taylor, Roger Arango and Robert Lockwood, (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977).
- “Soldiers Rising: Impressions From NATO Armies.” In Atlantic Europe? The Radical View, edited by Tom Nairn, (Amsterdam: The Transnational Institute, 1976).
REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES
- “Lessons from Recent Peace Movements,” American Behavioral Science, April 24, 2025, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00027642251334074
- Essay in “Forum on Scholarship and Peace Activism,” in American Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 217–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae392
- “Special Forum: A Nuclear Reckoning,“ Peace and Change, 47, no. 3 (July 2022), 269-271, A nuclear reckoning – Cortright – 2022 – Peace & Change – Wiley Online Library
- ”To End War: Randy Forsberg’s Moral Vision and Social Agenda,” H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-9 (19 October, 2020), https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XXII-9.pdf
- “Assessing Pacem in Terris 50 Years On: A Personal Odyssey,” Journal of Catholic Social Thought 11, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 33-46.
- “My Gandhi” Gandhi Marg, 35, no. 4 (Jan- Mar 2014): 561-582.
- “Friend not Foe: Opening Spaces for Civil Society Engagement to Prevent Violent Extremism,” with Alistair Millar, Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, George A. Lopez, Kristen Wall, Eliot Fackler and Joshua Weaver, Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law (Spring 2012): 238 – 256.
- “Winning Without War: Nonmilitary Strategies for Overcoming Violent Extremism,” Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 21, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 197-226.
- “License to Kill,” invited lead essay in “How Drones Are Changing Warfare” issue of Cato Unbound: A Journal of Debate, online at http://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/01/09/david-cortright/license-kill.
- “Towards Realistic Pacifism: John Howard Yoder and the Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Peacemaking,” The Conrad Grebel Review 29, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 54-72.
- “Conscience and War,” Peace & Change 35, no. 3 (July 2010): 502-511.
- “Reminiscences of Resistance,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 18, no. 2 (April/June 2006): 207.
- “Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked,” with George A. Lopez, Foreign Affairs 83, no. 4 (July/August 2004): 1–14.
- “Civil Society: The Other Superpower,” Disarmament Diplomacy 76 (March/April 2004): 40-42.
- “Powers of Persuasion: Sanctions and Incentives in the Shaping of International Society,” International Studies 38, no. 2 (2001): 113-125.
- “Learning from the Sanctions Decade,” with George A. Lopez, Global Dialogue 2, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 11-24.
- “Are Sanctions Just? The Problematic Case of Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Journal of International Affairs 52, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 735-755.
- “Public Opinion and Nuclear Options for South Asia,” with Samina Ahmed and Amitabh Mattoo, Asian Survey 38, no. 8 (August 1998): 727-744.
- “Gandhi’s Influence on the U.S. Peace Movement,” International Studies 34, no. 3 (1997): 359-375.
- “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.
- “Targeted Financial Sanctions: The Key to a ‘Smart’ Sanctions Policy,” Die Friedens-Warte 72, no. 4 (1997): 327-336.
- “Public Opinion and Nuclear Weapons Policy in India,” with Amitabh Mattoo, Asian Survey 36, no. 6 (June 1996): 545-560.
- “The Coming of Incrementalism,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 52, no. 2 (March/April 1996).
- “The Sanctions Era: An Alternative to Military Intervention,” with George A. Lopez, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 19, no. 2 (May 1995): 65-85.
- “The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Love It or Leave It?” Peace Review 6, no. 4 (December 1994): 469-477.
- “Assessing Peace Movement Effectiveness,” Peace and Change 16, no. 1 (January 1991).
- “Black GI Resistance During the Vietnam War,” Vietnam Generation 2, no. 1 (Spring 1990).
- “Unions and Democracy,” Military Review (August 1977).
- “Justice and Democracy: The Impact of Unions in the Armed Forces,” Defense Review, The American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. (1977).
- “Economic Conscription,” Society (May/June 1975).
POLICY REPORTS
- Defunding the War Against Ukraine: Economic Strategies for Countering Russian Aggression, with Anna Romandash, (Fourth Freedom Forum, 2023), https://fourthfreedomforum.org/publications/defunding-the-war-against-ukraine-economic-strategies-for-countering-russian-aggression/; policy brief of the same name, Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2024.
- Promoting Protection and Empowerment for Iraqi Women, with Anna Romandash, Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs (March 2023), policy_brief_d.cortright_a.romandash.pdf
- Women and the Iraq War, 20 Years Later: The Consequences of War, Sanctions and Occupation for Women and the Continuing Struggle for Women’s Rights, with Anna Romandash and Marcelle Al-Zoughbi, Fourth Freedom Forum (March 2023), Women and the Iraq War, 20 Years Later: The Consequences of War, Sanctions, and Occupation for Women and the Continuing Struggle for Women’s Rights – 4th Freedom (fourthfreedomforum.org)
- Unknown Knowns: How the Bush Administration Traded Failure for Success in Iraq, co-authored with George A. Lopez and Alistair Millar, Fourth Freedom Forum (July 2022), 2022-July-Unknown-Knowns.pdf (fourthfreedomforum.org)
- Integrating Peacebuilding, Governance and Gender for Influence and Impact, Experiences and Lessons from Recent Cases, co-author and co-editor with Alexandra Towns and Aaron Chassy, Catholic Relief Services (2017).
- Reshaping United Nations Counterterrorism Efforts, with James Cockayne, Alistair Millar, and Peter Romaniuk, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (March 2012).
- Friend not Foe: Opening Spaces for Civil Society Engagement to Prevent Violent Extremism, 2nd Ed, with Alistair Millar, Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, George A. Lopez, Eliot Fackler and Joshua Weaver, Sanctions and Security Research Program, in conjunction with Cordaid, the Hague, Netherlands (April 2011).
- Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan, with Sarah Smiles Persinger, a report from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, in cooperation with Cordaid and the Fourth Freedom Forum (October 2010).
- Friend not Foe: Civil Society and the Struggle against Violent Extremism, with George A. Lopez, Alistair Millar, and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, A report to Cordaid from the Fourth Freedom Forum and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, (October 2008).
- Toward a More Secure America: Grounding U.S. Policy in Global Realities, with William Hartung and Lawrence Korb, updated, Fourth Freedom Forum, Goshen, Ind. (June 2007).
- Report on Standards and Best Practices for Improving States’ Implementation of UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Mandates, with Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe, George A. Lopez, Ann Marberger, and Kathryn Lawall, Center on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation (September 2006).
- Unproven: The Controversy over Justifying War in Iraq, with Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber. Policy Brief F12 A, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (June 2003).
- Contested Case: Do the Facts Justify the Case for War in Iraq? with Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber. Policy Brief F8, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (January 2003).
- Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq, with George A. Lopez and Alistair Millar. Policy Brief F5, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (October 2002).
- Report to AFGE: Military Unions in Europe, American Federation of Government Employees, Washington, D.C. (1976).
REVIEWS
- Our Grief is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror, by Jeremy Varon, Review Essay, Peace & Change, October, 2026.
- “Nuclear Anxieties, Then and Now,” Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War, reviewed in Arms Control Today, 52, no. 7 (September 2022), 42-44.
- “Dissent, democracy and the military,” Review Essay, I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Objectors and Deserters to America’s Wars, by Chris Lombardi. Peace & Change, in Peace & Change, vol. 47, no. 2 (April 2022), 190-195.
- Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War, by H. Bruce Franklin. Review essay, Peace & Change, vol. 44, no. 3 (2019): 415-417.
- America’s War for the Greater Middle East, by Andrew Bacevich, commentary in Christian Century, Vol. 133 Issue 21 (October 12, 2016), 29-30.
- The New American Soldiers and the Movement They Built, by Nan Levinson. Review essay, Peace & Change, vol. 41, no. 2 (2016): 257-259.
- Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement, by Lisa Leitz. Review essay, Mobilization, vol. 19, no. 4 (December 2014): 457-458.
- Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. Review essay, E-International Relations, 17 January 2013, http://www.e-ir.info/2013/01/17/review-why-civil-resistance-works/
- Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon, by Carl Mirra. Review essay, Peace and Change, vol. 37, no. 3 (July 2012): 471-473.
- Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military Resisters in World War II, by Shirley Castelnuovo. Review essay in Armed Forces & Society, 38, no. 3 (July 2012): 519-521.
- Crescent and Dove: Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam, by Qamar-ul Huda. Review essay in The Review of Middle East Studies, vol. 45, no. 2 (December 2011): 283.
- “Conscience and War,” review of Ann Wright’s Dissent: Voices of Conscience. Review essay, Peace and Change, vol. 35, no. 3 (July 2010): 502-511.
- Peace: A World History, by Antony Adolf. Review essay in Journal of Peace Research 47, no. 4 (July 2010).
- Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West, by David Peterson Del Mar. Review essay in Pacific Historical Review (November 2003).
- Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft & State Sponsors of Terrorism, by Meghan O’Sullivan. Review essay in Political Studies Review (August 2003).
- Appeasement in International Politics, by Stephen R. Rock. Review essay in American Political Science Review (March 2002): 271.
- “The Impact of the Antiwar Movement 20 Years After the US Invaded Iraq,” The Nation, February 14, 2023, The Impact of the Anti-War Movement 20 Years After the US Invaded Iraq | The Nation
- “The Winter Soldiers Movement: GIs and Veterans Against the Vietnam War,” review essay in Peace and Change 27, no. 1 (January 2002): 118–124. Books reviewed: The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Andrew E. Hunt (New York: University Press, 1999); The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era by Richard Moser (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996); Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Richard Stacewicz (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997).
- India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation, by George Perkovich. Review essay in The Review of Politics 62, no. 4 (Fall 2000).
- Peace Politics, by Paul Joseph. Review essay in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 50, no. 2 (March/April 1994).
- Conditions of Peace: An Inquiry, edited by Michael Shuman and Julia Sweig. Review essay in Peace and Change 17, no. 4 (October 1992): 483-88.
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan. Review essay in Humanitas, University of Notre Dame, 6, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 97-100.
- “The Collapse of the U.S. Military in Vietnam,” review essay of The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam 1965–1973, by Shelby L. Stanton. Review essay in Monthly Review (October 1988).
UNREFEREED JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
- “Getting Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran Back On Track,” Foreign Policy in Focus, August 3, 2026, https://fpif.org/getting-nuclear-diplomacy-with-iran-back-on-track/
- “The limits of military power and the promise of diplomacy with Iran,” International Policy Journal, Center for International Policy, June 26, 2026, https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/ceasefire-limits-war/
- “Why an Iran Deal Needs Economic Statecraft,” The National Interest, June 11, 2026, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/why-an-iran-deal-needs-economic-statecraft
- “A peace agenda to end military madness,” with William D. Hartung, Waging Nonviolence, April 28, 2026, https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/04/peace-agenda-to-end-military-madness/
- “Trump’s War on Iran is the obliteration of diplomacy,” International Policy Journal, Center for International Policy, March 30, 2026, https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/trumps-war-on-iran-is-the-obliteration-of-diplomacy/
- “Protests coupled with boycotts tend to be most effective at making governments change policies,” with Lisa Schirch, The Conversation, March 26, 2026, https://theconversation.com/millions-are-protesting-but-boycotts-might-be-key-to-changing-government-policies-276256
- “Building a Movement for Disarmament and Democracy,” CPD Policy Blog, February 26, 2026, University of Graz, Austria https://policyblog.empowermentforpeace.org/2026/02/8528/
- “Rev. Jackson’s deep commitment to peace,” Waging Nonviolence, February 20, 2026, https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/rev-jesse-jacksons-deep-commitment-to-peace/
- “The risk of nuclear war is rising again. We need a new movement for global peace,” The Guardian, February 8, 2026, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/08/nuclear-war-risk-rising-global-peace
- “Nonviolent discipline is helping turn the tide against ICE,” Waging Nonviolence, January 19, 2026, https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/nonviolent-discipline-is-helping-turn-the-tide-on-ice/
- “People of Faith Helped Stop Nukes Once: Let’s Do It Again,” with William D. Hartung, Sojourners, January/February 2026, https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/people-faith-helped-stop-nukes-once-lets-do-it-again
- “No to Wars of Conquest in Venezuela and Beyond,” with Peter J. Quaranto, International Policy Journal, Center for International Policy, January 9, 2026, https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/no-to-wars-of-conquest-in-venezuela-and-beyond/
- “The American peace movement we need today,” with Peter J. Quaranto, Waging Nonviolence, December 16, 2025, https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/12/american-peace-movement-we-need-today/
- “Toward a renewed nuclear arms control movement,” Waging Nonviolence, December 4, 2025, reprinted from Peace Policy, https://wagingnonviolence.org/links/toward-a-renewed-nuclear-arms-control-movement/
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- “Gandhi on the Nile: Civil Resistance in the Middle East,” Commonweal (11 March 2011).
- “Finding the Way Out: Why it’s time to end the war in Afghanistan, and how to do it,” Sojourners (March 2011).
- “A Multilateral No-Flight Zone,” Opinion piece, The New York Times (2 March 2011).
- “Why Nonviolence is working in Egypt,” GlobalPost online (10 February 2011).
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- “Countdown? Reviving the nuclear nonproliferation agenda,” America: The National Catholic Weekly (12 April 2010).
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- “Eight Points about Iran’s Nuclear Program,” The Christian Century 125, no. 12 (17 June 2008).
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- “Cease fire in Iraq,” with Robert G. Gard, Jr., Baltimore Sun (5 February 2007).
- “The New Nuclear Danger,” America 195, no. 19 (11 December 2006): 18-22.
- “An Odyssey with Gandhi,” Peacework 33, no. 368 (September 2006): 23.
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- “Iraq: The Human Toll,” The Nation, online only (24 July 2005), http://www.thenation.org/doc/20050801/cortright.
- “Time to Leave,” Sojourners 34, no. 6 (June 2005): 7.
- “Progress in Iraqi Freedom Stained by Growing Hardship,” Op ed., The Christian Science Monitor (7 June 2005).
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- “Creating a More Secure America,” USA Today Magazine 133, no. 2710 (July 2004): 14-17.
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- “The Real Failure in Intelligence on Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, The Boston Globe (11 March 2004).
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- “Weapons of Mass Deception,” Sojourners 32, no. 5 (September/October 2003): 15.
- “The Oil Spoils,” The Nation 276, no. 23 (16 June 2003): 4-5.
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- “The Progress of UN Disarmament in Iraq,” La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain (5 February 2003).
- “Stop the War Before it Starts,” The Progressive 66, no. 8 (August 2002): 18-21.
- “Why Not Attack Iraq?” Sojourners 31, no. 4 (July/August 2002): 15.
- “Smarting under Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez, The World Today 58, no. 3, London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs (March 2002): 17.
- “The Power of Nonviolence,” The Nation 274, no. 6 (18 February 2002): 13-14.
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- “Como Desarmar a Iraq sin Guerra.” La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain (13 October 2002).
- “A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions,” The Nation 273, no. 18 (3 December 2001): 20, 22, 24.
- “A Stark Vision of the World,” Sojourners 30, no. 6 (November/December 2001): 25, 27.
- “Dr. Strangelove, I Presume?” Sojourners 30, no. 3 (May/June 2001): 36, 62-63.
- “Re-energizing Sanctions,” with Alistair Millar, San Francisco Chronicle (January 2001).
- “The Limits of Coercion,” with George A. Lopez, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 56, no. 6 (November/December 2000): 18-20
- “Seeking an Iraqi Endgame,” Sojourners 29, no. 6 (November/December 2000): 13.
- “Toward Ethical Economic Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez, America 183, no. 17 (25 November 2000): 18-22.
- “Lift Trade Sanctions While Maintaining Arms Embargoes,” with George A. Lopez, Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (August 2000).
- “For Security and Humanity, Lift Trade Sanctions on Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Herald-Journal, Syracuse, N.Y. (August 2000).
- “Sanctioning Humanity,” with George A. Lopez, St. Paul Pioneer Press (August 2000).
- “Rethinking Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W.Va. (August 2000).
- “Positive Inducements in International Statecraft,” Fraser Forum. Based on a paper of the same title commissioned by the Fraser Institute (10–11 June 2000).
- “A Rush to Failure, Missile Defense: The Wrong Path to Security,” Sojourners 29, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 13.
- “The GOP Goes Nuclear,” Sojourners 29, no. 1 (January/February 2000): 10.
- “A Marshall Plan for the Balkans,” Sojourners 28, no. 5 (September/October 1999): 9.
- “End UN Sanctions Against Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (20 August 1999).
- “Sanctions Could Still Help Resolve Kosovo Situation,” The Elkhart Truth (24 May 1999).
- “Sanctions and the Search for Peace in Yugoslavia,” The Christian Science Monitor (12 May 1999).
- “Give Peace a Chance Before Balkans Spin Out of Control,” Defense News (14 April 1999).
- “An Unexpected Calling: An Interview with General George Lee Butler,” Sojourners 28, no. 1 (January/February 1999): 16-20.
- “Ban the Bomb II,” Sojourners 28, no. 1 (January/February 1999): 25-26.
- “Time for a New Option in Iraq,” The San Francisco Chronicle (8 December 1998).
- “Sanctions: Modify ‘em,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54, no. 5 (September/October 1998): 22–24.
- “To Defuse Nuclear Tensions in South Asia: A Nuclear Weapons Convention,” Waging Peace Worldwide: Journal of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation 8, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 10.
- “India’s Nuclear Challenge,” Peacework, no. 286 (June 1998): 4-5.
- “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.
- “What To Do About Iraq? The Moral Dilemma of Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez, Sojourners 27, no. 2 (March/April 1998): 12-13.
- “Nuclear Misdirection: The Cold War’s Over–The Threat Isn’t,” Sojourners 27, no. 2 (March/April 1998): 14.
- “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.
- “NATO’s New Frontier,” The Nation 264, no. 12 (31 March 1997): 21-22.
- “Test Ban Won’t Disable Nukes,” Tribune Chronicle, Warren, Ohio (8 September 1996).
- “India and the Bomb: A Post-Election Status Report,” with Amitabh Mattoo, Issue Brief 15, The Global Reporting Network of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, New York University (May 1996).
- “Incentives and International Conflict Prevention: Benefits and Hazards,” The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Report 10 (Spring 1996): 1-4.
- “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).
- “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).
- “Used Well, Economic Sanctions Can Work to Resolve Conflicts,” The Elkhart Truth (16 July 1995).
- “Los Alamos’s Little War with Peace,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 51, no. 2 (March/April 1995): 5-6.
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- “Disarmament: The Public Mood,” Peace Courier (December 1994). First published in Inforum, no. 15 (Fall 1994).
- “Peace Works,” The Workbook 19, no. 2, Southwest Research and Information Center, Albuquerque, N. Mex. (Summer 1994).
- “Prescription for a Civilized World (Sanctions),” with Howard Brembeck, Inforum, no. 14 (Summer 1994).
- “Economic Sanctions: Do They Work?” with George A. Lopez, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 49, no. 9 (November 1993): 14-15.
- “Sanctions: Control Without Bullets,” Chicago Tribune (14 August 1993).
- “Pacifists in Search of Response in Bosnia,” San Francisco Chronicle (13 May 1993).
- “Probing the Russian Riddle,” Inforum, no. 11 (Fall 1992).
- “Bombs Won’t Budge Saddam,” Christian Science Monitor (5 August 1992).
- “Peace Leadership Exchange,” Middle America (July/August 1992).
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- “Responsibilities of the U.S. Peace Movement,” Middle East Report 20, no. 6 (November/December 1990).
- “Notes on a Bright Shining Lie,” Vietnam Generation Newsletter 2, no. 1 (November 1990).
- “Next Step in Middle East Crisis: Negotiated, Peaceful Solution,” South Bend Tribune (25 September 1990).
- “Reagan Buildup Didn’t Change Eastern Europe,” Philadelphia Inquirer (7 February 1990).
- “Shaping a Peacetime Economy,” The Progressive (January 1989).
- “Arms Race Outpaces Peace Efforts,” with William Sloane Coffin, Austin American-Statesman (9 November 1988).
- “The Peace Movement and INF,” SANE World/Freeze Focus (Winter 1987).
- “Biting the Bullet,” with William Winpisinger, New York Times (26 October 1980).
- “World’s Costliest Missile,” with Virginia Witt, In These Times (20 June 1979).
- “Minimal Coercion: The Plan to Revive the Draft,” The Progressive (June 1977).
- “The Russians Are Coming,” with Robert Borosage, The Nation (19 February 1977).
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- “Blacks in the Military,” The Progressive (December 1975).
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- “Beefing Up the Ready Reserves,” The Nation (19 March 1972).