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The course takes the transformation of world politics, in particular the development of international human rights, in the mid-20th century as a key moment in order to critically examine both the degree to which international politics has become more ethical and the ways that our understanding of global ethics influences our practical responses to issues like the development of human rights, new practices of humanitarian intervention, global poverty, the development of international criminal law and the creation of new forms of transnational and supranational political authority. The module aims to balance philosophical reflection on the nature of global ethics with practical engagement in contemporary political events.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Global Ethics: An Introduction 

Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press

Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics 

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations 

Human Rights in Global Politics 

Law, War & Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law 

Ethics and World Politics 

IP2057 - Ethics and Global Politics

IP2057-PRD1-PER-ALV1

Acquisition of knowledge and understanding is promoted through a combination of lectures and interactive classes with a strong emphasis on students' presentations.  You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to understand the topics covered in lectures and classes and to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject. You also receive feedback on your coursework to encourage you to reflect on what you have produced.

Ethics and Global Politics

Appreciate the role ethics play in government and private sector work as standards that are to be upheld legally and socially.

Skills

Evaluate the place of ethics in international politics, expressed through norms, customs and law – with particular reference to the development of international human rights.

Knowledge

Identify and evaluate how norms, customs and law shape contemporary international politics as part of a shift away from the supremacy of an amoral notion of state sovereignty.

Apply your analytical skills to oral and written arguments that are critical and well-supported.

Recognise the diverse ways in which ethical concerns and controversies shape world politics from the local to the global level.

Make independent critical judgements about the value and efficacy of ethical claims.

Critically evaluate the approaches to thinking about ethics in international politics and be able to analyse these diverse approaches and make critical evaluations of them.

Analyse complex text in a variety of disciplines.

Appreciate the broad impact, both intended and unintended, of norms, customs and law in international politics.

Values and attitudes

Develop capacity to value diversity and work within a group.

Respect for the diversity of interests and values that are held in regards to global ethics.

Analyse the contested nature of ethical claims in international politics.