Ethical Leadership in International Organizations
Concepts, Narratives, Judgment, and Assessment

This book develops an interdisciplinary conceptualisation and a practical application of virtue ethics to leadership in international organisations.

Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça (Edited by), Maria Varaki (Edited by)

9781108485869, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 May 2021

275 pages
15 x 23 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], United Nations & UN agencies [JPSN1], International relations [JPS]