David Cortright

Author of Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas

About the Author

David Cortright is Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age and show more Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. show less

Works by David Cortright

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Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (2008) 68 copies, 1 review

Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War (2005) 66 copies, 1 review

Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism (2006) 63 copies

Peace works : the citizen's role in ending the Cold War (1993) 15 copies

The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (2000) 13 copies

Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action (2002) 10 copies

Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications (2015) 9 copies

Soldiers in revolt: The American military today (1975) 8 copies

Uniting against terror : cooperative nonmilitary responses to the global terrorist threat (2007) 7 copies

Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in a Post-Cold War World? (1995) 7 copies

Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft (2002) 5 copies

Civil Society, Peace, and Power (2016) — Editor — 5 copies

Ending Obama's war responsible military withdrawal from Afghanistan (2011) 5 copies

Truth Seekers: Voices and Peace and Nonviolence from Gandhi to Pope Francis (2020) 4 copies

Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies (Contributions in Military Studies) (1991) 4 copies

The price of peace : incentives and international conflict prevention (1997) 4 copies

Towards Nuclear Zero (2010) 4 copies

India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options (Publication of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies) (1996) 4 copies

A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World's Largest Antiwar Movement (2023) 3 copies

Overcoming Nuclear Dangers 1 copy

Smart sanctions : restructuring UN policy in Iraq 1 copy

An Action Agenda for Enhancing the United Nations Program on Counter-Terrorism (2004) 1 copy

Governance for Peace: How Inclusive, Participatory and Accountable Institutions Promote Peace and Prosperity (2017) 1 copy

Protest and Policy in the Iraq, Nuclear Freeze and Vietnam Peace Movements (Elements in Contentious Politics) (2025) 1 copy

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