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This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary approach that elucidates the importance of virtue ethics to help better understand the role of leadership in international organisations. The authors use a combination of theoretical and conceptual narratives as well as case studies to highlight both the advantages and weaknesses that the angle of virtue ethics offers. A particularly important step in times of uncertainty or crisis when the demand for leadership becomes more urgent yet more daunting. In this sense, this volume oscillates between critique and hope, since it provides a plausible, rather than a purely abstract, approach to the conceptualization and concretization of ethical leadership.
List of contents
Introduction: 1. The Place of Ethical Leadership, Virtues and Narrative in International Organizations Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça; Part I. Concepts: 2. Authority, Law, and Knowledge: Some Critical Remarks on 'Theories' of Practice and the Paradoxes of 'Virtue' Ethics Friedrich Kratochwil; 3. Commitment to the Rule of Law: From a Political to an Organizational Ideal Sanne Taekema; 4. Exemplarism, Virtue and Ethical Leadership in International Organizations Amalia Amaya; Part II. Ethical Narratives and Organizations: 5. Virtue in Algorithms? Law and Ethics in Algorithmic Governance René Urueña; 6. Ethics in International Sporting Institutions Lorenzo Casini; 7. Modes of Acting Virtuously at the Universal Periodic Review Jane K. Cowan; Part III. Judgment and Assessment of Ethical Narratives and Leadership: 8. Imaginary Leadership and Displacement: A Laboratory of Dilemmas? Maria Varaki; 9. Revisiting Rainbow Warrior: Virtue and Understanding in International Arbitration Jan Klabbers; 10. Virtue and Leadership in the World Health Organization Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça; Conclusion: Ethical Leadership in Times of 'Crisis' Maria Varaki.
About the author
Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça is Profesor Asociado at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Law School. He has a global and interdisciplinary research profile and has held previous appointments in Australia, China, Colombia, Finland and Italy. His research focuses on law, ethics, and humanities as modes of social ordering and meaning-making.Maria Varaki is Lecturer in International Law at King's College London, War Studies Department. She is a scholar of International Law and has held previous research and teaching positions in Helsinki, Jerusalem, Melbourne, Istanbul, Copenhagen and Ireland. Her research focuses on the interaction of law, ethics and judgment.
Summary
The book targets students and academics interested in the role of ethics in international law and the importance of individual character and virtues in international organizations' leadership positions and staffs. It provides a novel interdisciplinary account of virtue ethics that is context-sensitive and non-ideal based on abundant case studies.
