Ethics and International Relations
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When an individual forms a society to secure self-protection and self-interest, they establish a habit of distinguishing a group from other groups. As a means of social norms, customs tend to affect individual actions practicing certain customary activities, while maintaining the recommended ethics in general. Diverse geopolitical and cultural characteristics make it possible to develop customs that make it difficult to understand the moral values of other societies. In particular, the poems of Herodotus explain how the moral differences between the two habits interferes with realizing cooperation and mutual agreement.
This course covers an important ethical dilemma in world politics. It first investigates the main ethical traditions in international relations, such as cosmopolitanism, communalarianism, feminism, post colonialism. Later in this course we will cover a variety of practical issues such as human rights, international law, humanitarian intervention, poverty. Discussions at lectures and seminars are alternated with alternative teaching methods such as participatory learning and simulation exercises. The first part will study the international ethical tradition and will demonstrate how we think about peace, morality and justice in world politics. The purpose of this section is to provide students with the conceptual and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand the various ethical dilemmas in today's international relations. The issues addressed in this section are as follows.
POLS 7503 Ethics and Human Rights - Workshop 1: Introduction and Seminar # 2: General Moral Theory
Various moral traditions influence the behavior of modern international relations. Indeed, in their international ethical tradition research, Trinate and David Marpel have identified 12 major ethical traditions, including international law, realism, natural law, Judaism - Christianity, Marxism, and cantism. Some of these traditions are based on end-based analysis (eg realism, utilitarianism, Marxism), others are based on rule-based analysis (eg natural law, cantism, liberalism) . And human rights). All these traditions lead to modern international politics, but the analysis here focuses on only three of them: realism, idealism, and fundamentalism realism. These three traditions are important because they play an important role in building the foreign policy of the United States.
Realism realism can be said to be the oldest ethical tradition related to international relations. It can be traced back to the origin of political thought in ancient Greek civilization. Historian Thucydides is the author of the classical history of the Peloponnesus War and is often regarded as the father of realism. Other ancient and modern political thinkers such as Saint Augustine, Nicole Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes have made decisive contributions to the development of this tradition. In the 20th century, scholars such as Herbert Butterfield, E H. Carr, Robert Gilpin, Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr contributed to the further development and application of modernism in modern international relations. Like most traditions, political realism is not easy to define. That is because it is partly a dynamic and dynamic tradition that is constantly evolving, because it is a multi-dimensional movement of various clues.