Prof Christopher Brown CLM 4.08

This course is available on the BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics, BSc in International Relations and BSc in International Relations and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Combines insights and concepts from political theory and international relations theory, and focuses on modern debates on sovereignty, the rights of states, individuals and peoples, and international justice. Sovereignty and the norm of non-intervention; the contemporary international human rights regime; the rights of peoples; the ethics of war and violence; the politics of humanitarian intervention (with case studies); justice in classical international thought; global social justice. Further details will be provided at the start of the session.

10 hours of lectures and 9 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 3 hours of classes in the ST.

Students will write four essays, maximum length of 1,500 words each during the year, and introduce class discussions.

A detailed list of references will be provided: Widely used books include: C Brown, Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (Polity, 2002); Thomas Pogge & Darrel Moellendorf eds. Global Justice: Seminal Essays (2008); Michael Walzer Just and Unjust Wars (2006).

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the main exam period.