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Course description

This course examines some of the key moral dilemmas in global politics. It examines several ethical traditions, such as realism, communitarianism, cosmopolitanism and feminism in an attempt to provide students with the knowledge necessary to understand issues related to peace, morality and justice in international politics. The second part consists of a series of case studies that illustrate the practical dimension of debates about ethics in international politics. We will examine the ethics of membership, global poverty and global justice, environmental justice and climate change, the ethics of war, the problem of evil and the relationship between the rights discourse and moral change.

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