POL 380 - 21st Century U.S. Diplomacy

The list below contains to help students get started on their individual case studies. There are hundreds of other topics to pursue, so long as they bear on the role of diplomats and diplomacy. For other ideas, check out:

• Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training
• Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Case Studies 
• The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy chapters
• Wikipedia list of diplomatic incidents

Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Peace of Utrecht (1713)
Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)
The Diplomacy of Simon Bolivar 1818-1830
The Congress of Berlin 1884-1885
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Creation of the League of Nations, 1920
Yalta conference, 1945
Indian independence, 1947
Communist victory in China, February 1949
Korean War, June 1950
Hungarian revolution and Suez crisis, 1956
Cuban revolution, January 1959
Congo crisis, 1960-61
Construction of the Berlin Wall, August 1961
Cuban missile crisis, October 1962
6-day war between Egypt and Israel, June 1967
Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 1968
Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed, 1968
SALT I agreement limiting strategic arms, May 1972
Chilean coup d'etat deposing Salvador Allende, September 1973
Yom Kippur war, October 1973
Ending the Vietnam war, 1973-75
Angolan civil war, 1974-75
Panama canal treaty, 1977
Camp David Accords 1978
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, December 1979
U.S.-Soviet summit in Reykjavik, October 1986
Yugoslavia breaks apart, 1991
Persian Gulf war, 1991
Treaty of European Union signed in Maastricht, 1993
End of the apartheid regime in South Africa, 1994
Rwandan genocide, 1994
NATO campaign in Kosovo, 1999
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, 2001
Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan 2005
ASEAN Charter 2007
Diplomacy in the Iraq War, 2003-2007
Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 2010
The Paris Agreement 2015
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) 2018
Comparing NAFTA 1992, and USMCA 2020
Namibia Reparations 2021
Sanctions Regime of Russia following its 2022, invasion of Ukraine