Ethics and Global Politics: The Active Learning Sourcebook

* Covers current affairs and fundamental long-term issues
* Clearly written for easy reading and step-by-step instructions for educators and students of many levels
* Incorporates classroom-tested exercises from contributing professors
* Includes royalty-free photocopy-ready student handouts

How do you empower your students to construct their own perspectives on global concerns such as human rights, global warming, corporate social responsibility, and security against terrorism? This book shows you how.

Compiling classroom-tested exercises for use in courses related to world affairs, it guides instructors through the steps of active learning and offers issues-based modules as templates for classroom instruction. Each module provides background information about issues and activities, step-by-step instructions, photocopy-ready exercises for students, and a post-exercise debriefing with discussion questions.

With this sourcebook, educators will powerfully connect their students to issues that transcend their immediate cultures and experiences. Aiming beyond passive comprehension, the exercises prompt students to define their own ethical compasses and foster the cultural awareness and communication skills necessary to navigate a diverse world.

Colette Mazzucelli is a senior lecturer and member of "Conseil Scientifique," Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution and a researcher at the "Centre Europeen," Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) Paris. A Da Vinci Laureate, Mazzucelli was cited as International Educator of the Year (2003) for pioneering work in technology-mediated learning. She is the author of France and Germany at Maastricht and the co-editor, with Derek Beach, of Leadership in the 'Big Bangs' of European Integration (2006, forthcoming). Mazzucelli is on faculty teaching ethnic conflict, international relations theory and diplomacy, the European Union, and peacemaking and conflict resolution at the Center for Global Affairs, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, and the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University.

April Morgan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Tennessee. She specializes in international relations theory and international law. In 2000, Morgan received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2003, the National Alumni Association named her Outstanding Professor of the Year. Georgetown University’s Class of 1995 gave her the Edmund A. Walsh Honored Faculty teaching medal.

Lucinda Joy Peach was Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University, where she taught courses in the areas of applied ethics, moral philosophy, and women’s studies. She published widely in areas of law, religion, ethics, and gender, including the impact of religious lawmaking on women’s rights, the ethics of women in military combat, corporate social responsibility for human rights, and women’s human rights, especially in the area of sex trafficking.