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The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s
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2000
By David Cortright, George A. Lopez
A project of the International Peace Academy
This work was produced in part through the generous financial contribution of the United States Institute of Peace. We gratefully acknowledge this support. The opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Institute of Peace.
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Since the end of the Cold War, economic sanctions have been a frequent instrument
of UN authority, imposed by the Security Council against nearly a dozen targets.
Some efforts appear to have been successful, others are more doubtful; all,
though, have been controversial. This book is based on more than two hundred
interviews with sanctions experts and officials from the UN and many countries.
It provides the first comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of UN sanctions
during the 1990s.
The authors develop a set of criteria for judging the full impact of sanctions—political,
economic, and humanitarian—and then provide detailed studies of eleven
cases. They conclude with far-reaching recommendations for increasing the viability
of sanctions as a productive diplomatic tool.
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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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ISBN: 1-55587-867-9 pb; ISBN: 1-55587-891-1 hc
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