David Cortright
Keough School of Global Affairs
Director of the Global Policy Initiative; Special Advisor for Policy Studies; Professor Emeritus of the Practice
- Nonviolent social change
- Nuclear disarmament
- The use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking
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Talk World Radio: David Cortright on Peace Activism Against the Iraq War
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September 05, 2023
This week on Talk World Radio we look back on the peace movement against the war in Iraq, or its phase that began 20 years ago. Our host, David Cortright, is Professor Emeritus and Special Advisor for Policy Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
OSV News
‘Oppenheimer’ Gives Catholics Opportunity To Explain Injustice Of Nuclear Weapons
September 05, 2023
“I think it’s been evolving in this direction — through the Atomic Age from Paul VI onward — that the church sees exactly this ominous reality of nuclear weapons, and that they are, by their very nature, indiscriminate instruments of mass annihilation,” David Cortright, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in Indiana, told OSV News.
USA Today
What are the peace plans for Ukraine? The Vatican, China and Ukraine itself have ideas. Will any work?
August 02, 2023
Still, retired peace studies professor David Cortright said that it's time for Ukraine and Russia to do more talking about how to end the war even if they don't trust each other, or the mediators involved.
PBS
The Movement and the "Madman"
Video Audio
March 28, 2023
David Cortright, Professor Emeritus from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is featured in the documentary film "The Movement and the 'Madman'" as part of the PBS series "American Experience."
Dissent Magazine
The Purpose of Sanctions
May 09, 2022
David Cortright is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Sojourners
Are sanctions actually nonviolent?
May 02, 2022
David Cortright, a scholar at the University of Notre Dame and the co-author of The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s, told Sojourners that these sanctions are “probably the most severe sanctions that have ever been imposed” on Russia “in terms of the sweep of the restrictions and the amount of money that’s locked down.”
Al Jazeera
For isolated Russia, replacing key imports an uphill battle
April 01, 2022
Across sectors, things will get worse as more and more foreign companies flee Russia, said David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Merco Press
The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk crossed to the Atlantic after a brief call at Punta Arenas
March 21, 2022
“The fighting spread rapidly throughout the ship, with bands of Blacks and Whites marauding through the decks and attacking each other with fists, chains, wrenches, and pipes,” according to David Cortright, now with the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
NewsNation
Seizing Russian superyachts is easier said than done
March 10, 2022
“I’ve been studying sanctions for some decades and we see frequently that the assets of the troublemakers are frozen. They’re locked down, they can’t use them, they can’t get access to dollars or to credit or hard currencies, but the idea of actually seizing assets, this is pretty unprecedented,” said David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative at the University of Notre Dame.
Fortune
Global powers need to take a crucial step before sanctions will work
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March 02, 2022
Sanctions stand a better chance of working if they're enforced by multiple countries. (Video featuring David Cortright, Director of the Global Policy Initiative, University of Notre Dame.)
The Conversation
US-EU sanctions will pummel the Russian economy – two experts explain why they are likely to stick and sting
February 27, 2022
David Cortright is affiliated with Win Without War. George A. Lopez is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Quincy Institute, Washington, D.C., and a U.S. Fulbright Senior Specialist in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, 2018-2023.
Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine crisis: Can US sanctions sway Putin’s thinking?
January 21, 2022
They’ve targeted oligarchs and organisations close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But they have so far failed to deter Putin from “continuing to stir up trouble over Ukraine,” said David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute.
NPR
The U.S. warns Russia it faces sanctions if it invades Ukraine. Do sanctions work?
January 04, 2022
NPR's Rachel Martin discusses the potential effectiveness of new U.S. sanctions on Russia with David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
The Independent
Why Biden’s threat to sanction Russia probably won’t deter Putin in Ukraine
December 07, 2021
Written by David Cortright, Keough School of Global Affairs.
Almayadeen
US retreat from Iraq: Will France and Europe etc fill in the vacuum?
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October 25, 2021
David Cortright discusses the future of Iraq.
The Conversation
To end war in Afghanistan, Taliban demand Afghan president’s removal
August 11, 2021
Madhav Joshi is associate director of the PAM project, which has the mandate to monitor the 2016 Colombian Final Agreement and is partly funded by the US State Department, the European Union, the Humanity United, and the UN's Multi-Partner Trust Fund. David Cortright has raised funds from the US State Department for the Kroc Institute project monitoring the Colombia peace agreement. He is active with the NGO Win Without War, which conducts policy advocacy on progressive foreign policy issues.
National Catholic Reporter
Experts: U.S. pullout plan in Afghanistan does not address civilians' needs
April 21, 2021
"The U.S. policy has had diminishing returns and has not been able to achieve any significant goal over the last decade or more. The goal was to create a more secure, stable Afghanistan and that certainly has not happened," said David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.