IGA-208 B: Modern Diplomacy: Peace and War in the 21st Century

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: R. Nicholas Burns

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 1/26
Meet Day T/Th 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM L130
Review

Description

Diplomacy may become the indispensable asset of the United States and the rising powers --China, India, Brazil, the EU--in an increasingly globalized 21st century world.  Can we learn to place greater value in diplomacy as a key weapon in our national security strategy? Can the U.S. and the rising powers work together to rebuild international institutions to cope with transnational challenges--regional wars, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, climate change?  Why has diplomacy been successful in stopping war and creating stability in some regions, such as the Balkans, and so unsuccessful elsewhere as in Iraq and Afghanistan? Course examines some of the great diplomatic achievements and practitioners of the recent past, including  diplomacy’s role in the war and peace issues of the post Cold War era from the fall of communism to Bosnia and Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Iran nuclear challenge and Darfur. Studies how diplomacy is changing in our own time in