George A. Lopez

George A. Lopez is an American international relations scholar. He is founding faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame where he holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies. Lopez researches state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, human rights, ethics and the use of force.

As a Senior Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. for 2009–10, Lopez wrote a small pamphlet called Can Sanctions Survive?

Lopez's work has been published in Human Rights Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Affairs, The International Journal of Human Rights, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Mad Magazine. With Michael Stohl, he has been editor and contributor to five books on repression and state terror, including Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research (1986).

Since 2001, much of his writing has been devoted to debates regarding ethics and the use of force in the "war on terror". His commentaries have been published in The New York Times, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Indianapolis Star and every month for 2005 and 2006 in La Opinión.