

During the 1990s, more than fifty new episodes of sanctions occurred. The conventional wisdom is that sanctions are ineffective and merely serve to placate public demands for action. David Cortright and George Lopez presented the findings of their book, The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s, which develops a set of criteria for judging the full impact of sanctions.
Presenter: Dr. Ann Florini, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Presenter: Elinor Ostrom, Professor, Indiana University

Presenter: Dinah Shelton, Notre Dame Law School

Presenters: Edith Brown Weiss, Professor, Georgetown University Law School; Harold Jacobson, Professor, University of Michigan
Presenter: James N. Rosenau, George Washington University
Presenter: Maryann Cusimano, Assistant Professor of International Relations, The Catholic University of America
Commentator: Dr. Catherine Gwin, Senior Vice President, Overseas Development Council
Presenter: Shepard Forman, Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University