What, if anything, do the global wealthy owe to the global poor? Are restrictive immigration policies unjust? How should the burden of climate change be shared? Is there ever a duty to militarily intervene in cases where severe crimes against humanity are taking place? This modules seeks to address these questions and provides an opportunity to critically reflect upon some of the most pressing challenges facing our globalising world today. Over the coursse of the term we will look at issues surrounding human rights, global poverty, immigration, climate change, humanitarian intervention, and democracy, and we will critically engage with the views of contemporary political theorists who have attempted to address questions in these areas.
This module aims to introduce you to key works in the contemporary literature on questions of global ethics, and to enable you to engage in sophisticated normative debates about important matters of international concern.
By the end of the module you will
Bell, D. 2010. Ethics and World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Brown, G. W. & D Held (eds.). 2010. The Cosmopolitan Reader (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Heywood, A. 2011. Global Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Hutchings, K. 2010. Global Ethics (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Mandle, J. 2006 Global Justice (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Singer, P. 2002. One World: The Ethics of Globalization (Yale University Press).
One essay of 4000 words (100% of total mark).
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