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Poslední úprava: Dr. Stephen Long (07.09.2023)
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Poslední úprava: Dr. Stephen Long (07.09.2023)
The objectives of this course are as follows: • Students will learn to read and think critically about arguments and puzzles relating to ethical behavior by individuals and societies in international relations. Particular skills will include identifying the context of sources, interpreting their meaning, and critically analyzing them. • Students will learn to write argumentative, persuasive essays on topics relating to ethics in international relations. Students will learn to write papers that offer a clear thesis or central argument, develop that argument logically, and support that argument with evidence from a single source or multiple sources. • Students will improve their information literacy, learning how to identify reliable sources, synthesize information from those sources in a way that adds value, and cite sources properly. • Students will improve their oral communication skills, learn how to listen actively to others, contribute to discussions and debates substantively and in a civil manner, and participate in the intellectual community of the seminar. |
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Poslední úprava: Dr. Stephen Long (01.11.2023)
1. Class Participation, In-Class Assignments, and Debates
Discussions, in-class writing, and debates are crucial parts of this course. Attendance is required. A weekly grade for participation in class discussions and in-class writing assignments will be assigned. Unexplained absences will result in a zero for the weekly discussion grade, and students will not be permitted to make up missed in-class assignments or debates. 10 points.
Each student will also participate in one formal debate in class. 15 points.
2. Paper 1: Close reading of a single assigned article. Up to 5 pages double-spaced. Detailed instructions will be provided in class. Due 10 November. 25 points.
3. Paper 2: Analytical critique of an assigned article using outside sources of evidence. Up to 5 pages double-spaced. Detailed instructions will be provided in class. Due 1 December. 25 points.
4. Paper 3: Analytical critique of an outside article using outside sources of evidence. Up to 5 pages double-spaced. Detailed instructions will be provided in class. Due 8.1.2023. 25 point
Grading:
100 - 91 points: A 90 - 81 points: B 80 - 71 points: C 70 - 61 points: D 60 – 50 points: E less than 50 points: F (fail)
Paper submission: Papers will be submitted through Turnitin. Link provided in class.
Class Ethics: (A) Any use of quoted texts in submitted papers must be acknowledged. Such use must meet the following conditions:
It is recommended to use the style of Chicago Manual of Style. (B) Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT to produce drafts or final versions of any written assignments is prohibited. This includes using AI to produce references, evidence, ideas, phrasing, or any element or starting point for a written assignment. (B) In case the use of any texts other than those written by the author is established without proper acknowledgment as defined in (A) or use of generative AI as defined in (B), the paper will be deemed plagiarized and handed over to the Disciplinary Commission of the Faculty of Social Sciences. |
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Poslední úprava: Dr. Stephen Long (07.09.2023)
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Poslední úprava: Dr. Stephen Long (07.09.2023)
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Poslední úprava: Dr. Stephen Long (07.09.2023)
Week 1. Introductions and Inquiries. Utilitarianism, consequentialism, and deontology.
Week 2. Is war ever just? If so, when? Required: · Oren, The Morality of War, pp. 1-30. Optional: · Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars excerpts from Chapters 4-6 (14 pages)
Week 3: Is it right to compel an individual to fight? Required: · Galston, “A Sketch of Some Arguments for Conscription'' (6 pages) · Fullinwider, “Conscription- No” (6 pages)
Week 4: Are weapons of mass destruction ever ethical? Required: · Wasserstrom, “War, Nuclear War, and Nuclear Deterrence: Some Conceptual and Moral Issues” (20 pages) Optional: · Walzer, “Nuclear Deterrence” (15 pages)
Week 5: What obligations do we have to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants? Required: · Schwenkenbecher, “Collateral Damage and the Principle of Due Care” (9 pages) · Abbate, “Assuming Risk: A Critical Analysis of a Soldier’s Duty to Prevent Collateral Casualties” (13 pages) Optional: · Gray, “Weaponized Non-Combatants: A Moral Conundrum of Future Asymmetrical Warfare” (16 pages) Week 6: Are drone strikes morally equivalent to other forms of force? Required: · Strawser, “Moral Predators: The Duty to Employ Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles” (26 pages) Optional: · Film: “Eye in the Sky” (1 hour and 42 minutes) Assignments: · Paper 1 Due Friday 5 pm · In-Class Debate 1 Prompt: Unmanned aerial drone strikes may justly be used to achieve political goals. Participants to be assigned.
Week 7: What can justly be done with captives? Required: · Santucci, “A Question of Identity: The Use of Torture in Asymmetric War” (17 pages) · Majima, “Just Torture?” (13 pages)
Week 8: Genocide and humanitarian intervention Required: · Valentino, Final Solutions ch. 3 (27 pages) Optional: · Dallaire, “The End of Innocence: Rwanda 1994” (11 pages) Assignments: · In-Class Debate 2 Prompt: The dominant military powers (e.g. the P-5, NATO) should intervene militarily in civil wars when genocide is evidently occurring. Participants to be assigned.
Week 9: Ethics of state surveillance Required: · Königs, “Government Surveillance, Privacy, and Legitmacy” (22 pages) Optional: · Intelligence2 Debate Video, “Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Records Violates the Fourth Amendment,” Abdo and Wydra v. Baker and Yoo (1 hour and 28 minutes) Assignments: · Paper 2 Due Friday 5 pm
Week 10: How can global inequality be resolve justly? Required: · Intelligence2 Debate Video, “Aid to Africa is Doing More Harm than Good,” Ayittey, Easterly, and Rieff v. Lucas, McArthur, and Smith (1 hour and 45 minutes) Optional: · Collier, The Bottom Billion Assignments: · In-Class Debate 3 Prompt: The highly developed countries (HDCs) should substantially increase their foreign aid to less developed countries (LDCs) in order to decrease global economic inequality. Participants to be assigned.
Week 11: What is owed to conflict refugees? Required: · Kukathis, “Are Refugees Special?” (21 pages) Optional: · Betts and Collier, “Help Refugees Help Themselves” (9 pages)
Week 12: What obligations do states have to protect the environment? Required: · Gardiner, “A Perfect Moral Storm” (13 pages) · Adow, “The Climate Debt: What the West Owes the Rest” (8 pages) NOTE: All texts available in this syllabus are for study purposes of this course only. They are protected by copyright and must not be further distributed.
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