Global Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - JPM041

• Title: Global Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Form of teaching: lecture+practicals
• Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2026
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 27 / 27 (27)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: 27
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 1 / 2
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Janusz Salamon, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Janusz Salamon, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JPM399

Syllabus

SYLLABUS

Lecturer: Dr Janusz Salamon

Time: Monday, 18:30-19:50

Place: Classroom C520 (Jinonice campus)

Office hours: Monday, 17:00-18:20 (in C514)

 

COURSE TOPICS:

Week 1. [NO CLASS: State holiday in the Czech Republic]

Week 2. John Rawls and the Law of Peoples

Week 3. Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice (Thomas Pogge)

Week 4. The West vs the Rest? On a Chinese Tianxia Model of a Global Order 

Week 5. Global Gender (In)Justice

Week 6. Capabilities Approach, Human Development and Global Justice (Martha Nussbaum)

Week 7. Social Choice Theory of Justice and Global Pluralism (Amartya Sen)

Week 8. Is "Just War Theory" Obsolete in the Trump's World Order? 

Week 9. Nationalism and Global Democracy

Week 10. Michael Sandel and Republican Critique of Liberalism

Week 11. Markets and Justice

Week 12. Justice for Animals

CLASS READINGS are uploaded below (in the SIS, not Moodle).

The readings are drawn from the following books:

Robert C. Solomon, Mark C. Murphy (eds), What Is Justice? Classic and Contemporary Readings. 2^nd Edition, OUP, 2000.

Alan Ryan (ed.), Justice, Oxford Readings in Politics and Government, OUP, 1993.

T. Pogge, K. Horton (eds), Global Ethics: Seminal Essays, Paragon, 2008

T. Pogge, D. Moellendorf (eds), Global Justice: Seminal Essays, Paragon House, 2008

M.R. Amstutz, International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008

P. Hayden (ed.),Ethics and International Relations, Ashgate, 2009

J. Salamon, Hsin-Wen Lee (eds),  Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2024.

J. Salamon (ed.), Solidarity Beyond Borders: Ethics in a Globalising World, Bloomsbury, 2016.

R. Shapcott, International Ethics. A Critical Introduction, Polity, 2010.

G. Graham, Ethics and International Relations, Blackwell,1997

T. Brooks (ed.), The Global Justice Reader, Blackwell, 2008

N. Dower, World Ethics, Edinburgh University Press, 1998

P. Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Yale University Press, 2002

K. Hutchings, Global Ethics: An Introduction, Polity, 2010.

 

 

COURSE GRADING:

Final In-Class Written Exam:         100%

 

FINAL EXAM

The Final Exam will be written in class. You will have 180 minutes to your disposal. Students will be asked to select in accordance with their preference THREE topics from a list of topics (related to the main problems of global ethics explored in the class reading and in the classroom), and to "DISCUSS" (in a form of short essays: 3-4 pages per topic, at least 10 pages in total, if you aspire to top grades) relevant issues showing both the familiarity with the material explored in the course of the semester, and the ability to think critically about such issues. Thus critical assessment of the theories and arguments - as opposed to mere memorisation - is encouraged and will be rewarded.

 

GRADING SCALE:

• A = 91-100 % – excellent
• B = 81-90 % – very good
• C = 71-80 % – good
• D = 61-70 % – satisfactory
• E = 51-60 % – minimal pass
• F = 0-50 % – fail

 

Last update: Salamon Janusz, Ph.D. (26.09.2026)