Ethical Leadership

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course addresses the ethical dilemmas facing international affairs practitioners, focusing on the ethics involved in every-day decision-making, weighing priorities and tradeoffs. It will review the current literature on international ethics and cover ethical considerations related to key current international affairs issues, the tools available to international practitioners, and the ethics of the international system. Throughout, the course will focus on decision-making processes and case studies, in order to challenge students to understand how decisions are made, as well as engage in their own decision-making processes. The course will review ethical debates related to key foreign policy issues, tools of foreign policy, and finally, the structure of the global system and how it relates to sovereignty. Ethics is required for all MSFS students.