Sanctions and Security

Extensive writings and studies on UN Security Council policy and the use of sanctions and incentives as instruments of international peacemaking.

“Sanctions as Alternatives to War,” with George A. Lopez in The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, Christopher Coyne and Rachel Mathers, eds. (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011).

Integrating UN Sanctions for Peace and Security,with George A. Lopez, Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, Eliot Fackler, and Joshua Weaver (Sanctions & Security Research Program, October 2010).

Human Rights Standards for Targeted Sanctions, with Erika de Wet (Sanctions & Security Research Program, January 2010).

Patterns of Implementation: Do Listing Practices Impede Compliance with UN Sanctions? A Critical Assessment (Sanctions & Security Research Program, December 2009).

Human Rights and Targeted Sanctions: An Action Agenda for Strengthening Due Process Procedures, with George A. Lopez, Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, Eliot Fackler, Sarah Persinger, and Joshua Weaver (Sanctions and Security Research Porgram, November 2009).

Friend Not Foe: Civil Society and the Struggle against Violent Extremism,
A Report to Cordaid from the Fourth Freedom Forum and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, with George A. Lopez, Alistair Millar, and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf. October 2008.

“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 Use of Arms Embargoes,” Analysis, BBC World Service, 31 July 2008

“Sanctions and Stability Pacts: The Economic Tools of Peacemaking.”
In Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods & Techniques, edited by I. William Zartman (rev. ed., 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, Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007): 349–369.

“Behind the Sanctions Against Iran,” Bryant Park Project, NPR, interview, October 29, 2007.

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

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

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

“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.

“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.

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

“Time to Leave,” Sojourners (June 2005): 7.

“Progress in Iraqi Freedom Stained by Growing Hardship,” opinion editorial, The Christian Science Monitor (7 June 2005).

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

“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.

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

“Bush’s New Iraq: Rhetoric vs. Reality,” with George A. Lopez, Chicago Tribune (26 May 2004) sec. 1, 27.

“How to End the Occupation of Iraq: A U.S. Exit Strategy,” War Times (May-June 2004) no. 17, 5.

“The Real Failure in Intelligence on Iraq,” with George A. Lopez, The Boston Globe (11 March 2004): A19.

“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.

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 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (September 2003).

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

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 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (June 2003).

“The Oil Spoils,” The Nation (16 June 2003): 4-5.

End Game: Removing Sanctions in Iraq, with Alistair Miller, George A. Lopez, and Linda Gerber. Policy Brief 11, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (19 May 2003).

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 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (January 2003).

Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq, with George A. Lopez, and Alistair Millar. Policy Brief, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (October 2002).

“Why Not Attack Iraq?” Sojourners (July-August 2002): 15.

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).

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

Sanctions, Inspections, and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq, with Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez. Policy Brief F3, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (June 2002).

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

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

“A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions,” The Nation (3 December 2001): 20, 22, 24.

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).

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

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

Smart Sanctions: Restructuring UN Policy In Iraq, with Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez. Policy Report, Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, Ind. (April 2001).

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

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

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

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

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

“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): B7.

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

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

“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.

“What To Do About Iraq? The Moral Dilemma of Sanctions,” with George A. Lopez, Sojourners 27, no. 2, (March/ April 1998): 12-13.

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).

“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.

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).

“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).

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