George A. LopezGeorge A. Lopez

Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Chair in Peace Studies
Professor of Political Science (on leave AY 2009-2010)
(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: Uniting Against Terror (coedited with David Cortright, MIT Press, 2007); Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action (coauthored, 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. Other 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, 2002).