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Reforming Sanctions
In The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century, ed. David M. Malone (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004)
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December 2004
By David Cortright, George A. Lopez
In this chapter, Cortright and Lopez trace the development of UN sanctions, beginning with the Iraq case in 1990 and continuing with more recent cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. They examine various proposals for mitigating adverse humanitarian consequences of sanctions and for improving the effectiveness of this frequently employed tool of Security Council policy. Policy innovations during the 1990s reviewed by the chapter include 1) the shift toward the use of targeted rather than comprehensive trade sanctions, and 2) the use of special investigative panels to identify sanctions violations and propose steps toward improved compliance. Special attention is devoted to sanctions reform efforts sponsored by individual governments (Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden) and to the working group on sanctions appointed by the Security Council in 2000. The chapter concludes with a summary of the most important recommendations for sanctions reform.
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David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
George A. Lopez holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force. For a list of publications by Lopez, please go to the Kroc Institute, Lopez, CV.
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