MSc in Theory and History of International Relations

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four units, including a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

One course from the following list:

 

HY400

Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, 1914-2003

HY422

Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: From Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-1989 

 

HY429

Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War

HY435

Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama bin Laden

HY436

Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

2

Courses to the value of one unit:

 

IR411

Foreign Policy Analysis

IR412

International Institutions

IR415

Strategic Aspects of International Relations (n/a 14/15)

IR416

The EU in the World

IR418

International Politics: Asia and the Pacific

IR419

International Relations of the Middle East

IR429

Economic Diplomacy

IR431

European Policy-making in a Global Context (H)

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) (n/a 14/15)

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H) 

IR466

Genocide (H)

IR481

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

IR482

Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies

3

One course from the following list:

 

HY411

European Integration in the Twentieth Century

 

HY426

The European Enlightenment, c 1680-1799 

 

HY432

From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999

 

HY434

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990

HY438

Western Intellectuals and the Challenge of Totalitarianism (n/a 14/15)

HY439

War Cultures, 1890-1945

HY440

The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy

HY441

Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago

HY442

Secret Intelligence in the 20th Century

HY444

The Cold War in Latin America

HY461

East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (n/a 14/15)

HY463

The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962

HY465

The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict

HY469

Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past

HY470

What is international about the 'International'?

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H) (n/a 14/15)

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

EU476

Turkey and Europe (H)

GV479

Nationalism

 

A further course from the paper 2 selection list

 

A further course from the paper 1 selection list (subject to approval by the programme director)

4

HY499

Dissertation

Notes

Students can also take HY447 Hacking the Archive, a non-assessed course taken in addition to the required four full-units as detailed above.