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MA International Relations – Full-time

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    MA 1 year Full time

Course Description

Deepen your knowledge of global issues and developments that present challenges to governments. You’ll explore what can cause them and potential solutions.

Current world developments – such as security and cybersecurity threats, changes of leadership, the emergence of new powers and the evolving nature of international politics – present fresh challenges to governments, regions and the international system as a whole.

During this course, you’ll study these topics in depth. You’ll look closely at the politics and policymaking of major nations across the planet, as well as the interplay of power between these countries and how order is maintained and managed by institutions.

By the end of your studies, you’ll have gained the analytical skills and theoretical knowledge to be able to unpack and detect the causes and consequences of specific political problems, and the different political processes that have generated them.

Entry Requirements

You should have a bachelor’s honours degree or international equivalent, typically a 2:1 or above.

To apply for this course you should have an undergraduate degree in an appropriate subject such as European Studies, International Relations, Modern Languages, Politics, History, Economics or Sociology.

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Student Destinations

Studying this course provides an excellent grounding for careers in international organisations, multinational corporations, public bodies and think tanks.

Graduates have gone on to successful careers in a wide range of organisations, including:

  • Danish EU Research Liaison Office in Brussels, Belgium
  • Enel Green Power North America Inc, USA (Director of External Relations and Communications)
  • European Parliament, Spain
  • World Energy Council in Berlin, Germany

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

You’ll choose one optional unit.

Compulsory units

  • Research methods in political science and international relations
  • Theoretical approaches of international politics and foreign policy

Optional units

  • Critical approaches to international security
  • European Union politics in a changing world
  • Gender theory
  • International terrorism
  • Statecraft and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region
  • The global politics of cyberspace
  • The resurgence of reactionary politics

Semester 2

You’ll choose three optional units.

Optional units

  • Contemporary comparative Russian politics
  • Democracy v technocracy: modernity and risk
  • Gender, security and transitional justice from Global South to Global North
  • Genocides, human rights’ violations, and transitional justice
  • Memory cultures and memory politics
  • The politics of Asia and the world
  • The politics of gender inequality
  • The politics of organised crime
  • The politics of the environment
  • Theories of conflict and conflict resolution

Summer

Compulsory units

  • MA in International Relations dissertation

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