MSc International Relations (Research)

Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, optional courses to the value of one full unit and a dissertation. All students on this programme are required to take a test at the beginning of October.

Paper

Course number and title

1

IR436

Theories of International Relations

2

MY4M1 MY4M2

Foundations of Social Research 1 or
Foundations of Social Research 2

3

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

 

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H) and

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H) (n/a/ 13/14)

EU431

European Integration from a Global Perspective (H)

EU435

History and Theory of European Integration (H)

EU437

Europe Beyond Modernity (H)

EU438

Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H) (n/a/ 13/14)

GI413

Gender and Militarisation (H)

GV479

Nationalism

IR407

International Political Economy of the Environment

IR411

Foreign Policy Analysis III

IR412

International Institutions (n/a 13/14)

IR415

Strategic Aspects of International Relations

IR416

The EU in the World

IR418

International Politics: Asia and the Pacific (n/a 13/14)

IR419

The International Relations of the Middle East

IR422

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

IR431

European Union Policy-Making in a Global Context (H) (n/a 13/14)

IR433

The International Politics of EU Enlargement (H)

IR434

European Defence and Security (H) (n/a/ 13/14)

IR437

Postcolonial Perspectives in International Relations (H)

IR438

Theory of International Society: The English School and its Critics (H) (n/a 13/14)

IR445

Chinese Foreign and Security Policy

IR447

Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H)

IR448

American Grand Strategy (H)

IR449

Conflict and Peacebuilding (H)

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)

IR465

The International Politics of Culture and Religion

IR466

Genocide (H)

IR481

Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (H)

IR482

Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies

LL4A6

Climate Change and International Law (H) (n/a 13/14)

4

IR499

Dissertation