Frontloads debates over the manners in which ethics, morality and norms do or do not inform policy issues on the global stage, the complicated ethical and moral tradeoffs involved in making foreign policy, and the often fraught balance between addressing the world as it is versus the world as one may wish it to be. Explores these issues through topics such as the ethics of humanitarian military intervention, genocide prevention, poverty alleviation and development and more.
Come learn more about the School of Public Policy's new major, Global and Foreign Policy. Faculty will be available to share details and answer questions about the program.
Join Career Services for an information session with the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA). The UNA-NCA aims to create conversations and connect individuals with programs that best align with their international interests.
The Karabelle Pizzigati Initiative in Advocacy for Children, Youth and Families builds a pipeline of informed, effective advocates to ensure all children are healthy, safe, learning and joyful.
This course allows students to interrogate how identities - including national, caste, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, socio-economic, political and beyond - and their intersections shape global and foreign policy challenges and solutions. The course emphasizes the centrality of identity to making, implementing, evaluating and adapting policy across time and place. Examples are drawn from an array of national, trans-national and global policy issues, including policies designed to tackle global health challenges, climate change, national security concerns and more.
Provides an overview of the key historical and contemporary forces and structures (e.g., the United Nations, decolonization, (de)globalization) defining the context within which global issues play out and foreign policy is conducted. Specific emphasis is placed on the legacy effects of prior policy choices, questions of which actor(s) have more or less influence in global and foreign policy decisions and why, and the importance of considering intended and unintended consequences of a given decision or initiative.
