Global Ethics

Students explore ethical themes and approaches in international relations. Students discuss these themes and their local and global dimensions. Students analyze global ethical problems and understand why solving them is difficult. By engaging with varied materials, students practice their critical thinking and argumentation skills.

Lecture series ( 5 ECTS) is held in Finnish.

Electronic Exam (5 ECTS) covers two books from the list below. Both are examined at the same time.

Choose two books from the following:

• Caron, Jean-François, Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare: The War of the Machines, Routledge, 2019.
• Crawford, Neta, Argument and change in world politics: ethics, decolonization, and humanitarian intervention, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Fabre, Cécile, Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Robinson, Fiona, Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, And International Relations, Taylor&Francis, 2018.

Essay (5 op), please contact the responsible teacher.

Online course "Politics and the Anthropocene" (5 ECTS) materials are available on the course Moodle page.

The study unit may be completed by participating in the lecture series, through electronic examination, by writing an essay, or with the online course "Politics and the Anthropocene."