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David Cortright

David Cortright is the director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and special advisor for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He also is chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum.


Articles by David Cortright

Exercise with Teikovsky missile unit. Credit: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. CC BY 4.0.

How to mix sanctions and diplomacy to avert disaster in Ukraine

By David Cortright, George A. Lopez | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
Russian President Vladmir Putin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Credit: www.kremlin.ru, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

Biden threatened harsh sanctions should Russia invade Ukraine. Putin may not be deterred.

By David Cortright | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

The Trump administration thinks it can win an arms race. Time for a history lesson.

By David Cortright | Nuclear Weapons

The Limits of Coercion

By David Cortright, George A. Lopez | Uncategorized