Treaties: Global
22 treaties from Global in the database, signed 1494 to 2015, listed by date.
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494Spain and Portugal agreed a dividing meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, moving west the line Pope Alexander VI...
Treaty of Zaragoza
1529The companion to Tordesillas fixed the anti-meridian on the far side of the world, 297.5 leagues east of the Moluccas. Spain gave...
Treaty of Paris 1763
1763Ended the Seven Years War, the first true world war. France ceded Canada and the land east of the Mississippi except New Orleans...
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928Outlawed war itself as an instrument of national policy, named for US Secretary Kellogg and French foreign minister Briand...
GATT
1947The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, interim, the ITO never ratified by US Senate, became the de facto world trade...
North Atlantic Treaty
1949Created NATO, the collective defense alliance where attack on one is attack on all, Article 5. Anchored the United States in...
Antarctic Treaty
1959Frozen continent dedicated to peace and science, no military activity, no nuclear tests or waste, no territorial claims...
Outer Space Treaty
1967Bars weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies, the moon and planets for peaceful use, no national...
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1968The grand bargain, five recognized nuclear states, US, Russia, China, Britain, France, keep weapons but disarm eventually, all...
SALT I
1972Nixon and Brezhnev signed the first strategic arms limits, five year freeze on ICBM, SLBM, and bomber numbers, and the ABM Treaty...
ABM Treaty
1972Limited antiballistic missile defenses to two sites, later one, each, freezing the mutual vulnerability logic, MAD, that kept...
UNCLOS
1982The constitution of the oceans, 12 mile territorial seas, 200 mile exclusive economic zones, continental shelf rights...
INF Treaty
1987Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated the entire class of ground launched 500 to 5,500 km missiles, Pershing II, SS 20, after...
Montreal Protocol
1987The most successful environmental treaty ever, phased out CFCs destroying the ozone layer, DuPont pivot helped, substitutes...
START I
1991Bush and Gorbachev, the last Soviet treaty, cut deployed strategic warheads to 6,000 and launchers to 1,600 each, verified by 12...
Open Skies Treaty
1992Eisenhower 1955 idea realized post Cold War, mutual unarmed observation flights over signatory territory, sensors certified...
Chemical Weapons Convention
1993Bans an entire weapon class, development, production, stockpiling, use of chemical weapons, with the OPCW inspection and...
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
1996Bans all nuclear test explosions, ending the era of atmospheric and underground blasts, over 2,000 conducted. Comprehensive Test...
Ottawa Treaty
1997Bans anti personnel landmines, the middle power coalition, Canada Lloyd Axworthy, ICBL Nobel 1997, NGOs and small states...
Kyoto Protocol
1997First binding greenhouse gas targets, developed countries only, averaging 5 percent cuts below 1990, flexibility mechanisms...
New START
2010Obama and Medvedev cut deployed strategic warheads to 1,550, delivery vehicles to 700, with robust inspections. Last remaining US...
Paris Agreement
2015Landmark climate accord, hold warming well below 2, pursue 1.5 degrees, every country submits NDC pledges every five years...