* 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - April L. Morgan
Part I: Perspectives on Ethics and Global Politics
Toolkit 1: International Relations Theories and Pedagogical Approach - April L. Morgan
Toolkit 2: Kant, Mill, and Sound Ethical Arguments - Kristin Andrews
Toolkit 3: The U.S. Is Not The Globe - Helena Meyer-Knapp & Lucinda Joy Peach

Part II: Problem-Solving in Ethics and Global Politics
A. The Use of Armed Force in Conflict
Module 1: What’s So Unique About the Nuclear Era?April L. Morgan
Module 2: Just War Theory and the 2003 War Against Iraq - Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez
Module 3: The Drama of International Relations - Helena Meyer-Knapp
Module 4: German, Polish, and Czech Support for the 1999 NATO Intervention in Kosovo: Does the Power of Norms Interact With the Norms of the Powerful? Meredith Heiser-Duron
Module 5: Flies in the Ointment: International Terrorists and Global Civil Society - Craig Warkentin

B. Other Questions of Social Justice
Module 6: Blood Diamonds in Africa - Peter Lucas
Module 7: The Pursuit of a Green Global Conscience: A Debate in Distributive Justice and Global
Environmental Governance - Vivian Bertrand
Module 8: Truth Commissions - Julie Mertus
Module 9: Drafting a Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities: A Treaty-Negotiation
Simulation - Nancy Flowers & Janet Lord
Module 10: Corporate Social Responsibility for Human Rights: The Case of Burma/Myanmar - Lucinda Joy Peach