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Dr Henry Radice

This course is available on the MSc in China in Comparative Perspective, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in International Relations, MSc in International Relations (杏吧论坛 and Sciences Po), MSc in International Relations (Research), MSc in International Relations Theory, MSc in Political Theory and MSc in Theory and History of International Relations. This course is not available as an outside option.

All students are required to obtain permission from the Teacher Responsible by completing the Student Statement box on the online application form linked to course selection on 杏吧论坛 for You. Admission is not guaranteed.

Introduction to International Political Theory; the ethics of statehood; the politics of humanity; human rights and their critiques; humanitarianism; the ethics of war and violence; global justice; borders, migration, and refugees; climate ethics.

18 hours of seminars in the MT.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.

Students will be expected to produce 1 x 2,000 word essay and a 2-page outline of the summative essay.

Appiah, K.A. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Allen Lane, 2006); Benhabib, S. Another Cosmopolitanism (Oxford, 2006); Brown C. and Eckersley R. The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory (Oxford, 2018); Brown C. International Society, Global Polity (Sage, 2015); Crawford, N. Argument and Change in World Politics (Cambridge, 2002); Erskine, T. Embedded Cosmopolitanism (Oxford, 2008); Griffin, J. On Human Rights (Oxford, 2009); Hutchings, K. Global Ethics: An Introduction (Polity, 2010); Walzer M. Just and Unjust Wars (Basic Books, 2006).

Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the LT.