Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: 12 months full-time; 24 months part‑time
The traditional military threats which defined global security matters for the best part of the 20th century have been quickly replaced by new and re-emerging security challenges. The Masters in Global Security offers you the opportunity to examine conventional and unconventional security threats in the contemporary environment.
2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in modern studies, politics, history, area studies (i.e. American studies, central and east European studies, European studies, Latin American studies, Arabic studies etc.), public policy, economics, sociology, geography, public health etc.
We may sometimes accept degrees at 2.2 Hons or non-UK equivalent.
Work experience will also be considered in lieu of lower grades or unrelated subjects.
If your degree is below 2:1 or in an unrelated subject, please upload a personal statement with your application.
This interdisciplinary programme will equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop a career across a wide range of industries and sectors.
By the end of the programme, you will be poised to begin a successful career in government and non-governmental organisations, businesses, and international/transnational agencies. Past students have gone on to work for governmental organisations such as:
the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
the UK Ministry of Defence
the Indonesian Government
Japan’s Parliament (National Diet)
the Dutch and German militaries.
Graduates have also begun successful careers with international agencies such as the United Nations and NATO. In addition, employment opportunities exist in large organisations such as the BBC, Ofgem and research agencies as well as private security and risk analysis companies.
Core courses:
Designing your Security & Area Studies Research Proposal
International Security and Strategic Studies
Optional courses:
Communist Regimes and their Societies
Conflict Analysis
Contemporary Challenges in Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia
Energy, politics and society in Eurasia
European and International Security Strategies
Gender, Race and International Relations
Global Migrations: Histories, Structures, Experiences.
Global Social Movements
Humanitarian Intervention: Civilian or Sovereignty
International Organizations
International Relations of the Middle East
Media and Conflict in Divided Societies
Media and Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Media, War and Security
Propaganda and Public Diplomacy: Authoritarian States
Russian Foreign Policy
Russian Politics and Society
The Ethics of War and Peace
War-making and Peace-making in the former Soviet Union
Yugoslavia and After: Themes and Controversies
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