George A. Lopez

Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Chair in Peace Studies
Professor of Political Science
(PhD, Syracuse University, 1975)
115 Hesburgh Center
574-631-6972
email: glopez@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/george-lopez

Geographic focus: Latin America; Iraq

Thematic interests: Economic sanctions; human rights; conflict resolution.

Current research: Gross violations of human rights and other forms of state violence, especially economic sanctions; peace research and peace studies

Selected publications: Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action (coauthor, Lynne Reinier, 2002); articles in Chitty's Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, International Studies Quarterly, The International Journal of Human Rights, the Journal of International Affairs, The Annals, Peace & Change, and The Journal of Peace Research. Recent articles, coauthored with David Cortright, appear in The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (Rienner, 2000) and Lopez and Cortright, eds., Smart Sanctions: Toward Effective and Humane Sanctions Reform (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)