MSc Global Politics

The MSc includes a core course, 'The Politics of Globalization' (paper 1) which all students must take. It draws on specialist knowledge from across the LSE's Politics staff to offer a comprehensive introduction to the changing structure of the global order, and the contemporary challenges of global politics. The rest of the MSc allows considerable choice of options whilst seeking to blend a global focus with more detailed thematic or regional knowledge. Students can also choose the Global Civil Society stream, in which case they must take a second core course, Global Civil Society, and additional options as detailed below. All students must write a 10,000 word dissertation.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to staff sabbaticals and research leave, the School cannot guarantee that all the courses listed below will be available.

Paper

Course number and title

MSc Global Politics

1

GV4A4

The Politics of Globalization

2

GV499

Dissertation* 

3 & 4

Courses to the value of two full units selected from the option list below

Global Civil Society stream

1

GV4A4

The Politics of Globalization

2

DV429

Global Civil Society (H)

3

GV499

Dissertation*

4

Courses to the value of 1.5 units selected from the option list below

 

Options (access to the following courses is not necessarily guaranteed and may require the permission of the course coordinator: please consult the individual course guides for further information on availability)

 

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H) (M)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H) (M)

DV418

African Development (H) (L)

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H) (M)

DV421

Global Health and Development (H) (L)

DV423

Global Political Economy of Development, I (H) (M)

DV424

International Institutions and Late Development (H) (L)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H)

DV434

Human Security (H) (L)

 

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

 

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

 

EU431

European Integration from a Global Perspective (H)

EU443

European Models of Capitalism (H) (M)

EU457

Ethnic Diversity and International Society (H)

EU460

European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State (H)

EU462

Partisanship in Europe (H)

GI407

Globalisation, Gender and Development

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)

GI420

Globalisation, Gender and Development: Policy and Practice (H)

GI422

Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation

GV427

Democracy in East and South Asia (H) (L) (n/a 13/14)

GV432

Government and Politics in China (H) (M)

GV436

National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation (H) (M) (n/a 13/14)

GV441

States and Markets (H) (M) 

GV442

Globalisation and Democracy (H) (M)

GV443

The State and Political Institutions in Latin America (H) (M)

GV444

Democracy and Development in Latin America (H) (L)

GV465

War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination (H) (M)

GV479

Nationalism

GV4A5

International Migration and Immigration Management (H) (M) 

GV4C2

Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Totalitarianism (H) (L)

GV4C9

Democratization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (H) (M)

GV4D3

Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization (H) (L)

 

GV4D4

The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (H)

GV4E1

Comparative Democratization in a Global Age (H)

GV4E8

Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (H)

GV4F2

Popular Politics in the Middle East (H)

GV4F8

Institutions in the Global Economy (H) (n/a 13/14)

GV4G5

The History and Politics of the Modern Middle East (H)

GV4G6

Nationalism and Global Politics (H)

GV4H2

Contemporary India: The World's Largest Democracy in the Early 21st Century (H)

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H)

ID440

Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (H)

IR407

International Political Economy of the Environment

IR412

International Institutions (n/a 13/14)

IR416

The EU in the World

IR419

The International Relations of the Middle East

IR422

Conflict and Peace Studies (n/a 13/14)

IR429

Economic Diplomacy

IR439

Diplomacy (H)

IR449

Conflict and Peacebuilding (H)

IR460

Comparative Political Economy (n/a 13/14)

IR461

Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) (n/a 13/14)

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H)

IR466

Genocide (H)

IR482

Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies

LL4C2

World Poverty and Human Rights (H)

SA4H9

Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (H)

 

Or a course not listed approved by the MSc Convenor

Notes

*Students must pass this course in order to pass the degree