MSc in International Relations (Research)

Programme Code: TMIRRE

Department: International Relations

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, optional courses to the value of one full unit and a dissertation.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

IR436

Theories of International Relations

2

MY4M1

Foundations of Social Research 1 or

 

MY4M2

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)

EU431

European Integration from a Global Perspective (H) (n/a 16/17)

EU435

History and Theory of European Integration (H)

EU437

Europe Beyond Modernity (H)

GI413

Gender and Militarisation (H)

GI426

Gender and Human Rights (H)

GV479

Nationalism

IR411

Foreign Policy Analysis III

IR412

International Institutions

IR415

Strategic Aspects of International Relations 

IR416

The EU in the World

IR418

International Politics: Asia and the Pacific (n/a 16/17)

IR419

The International Relations of the Middle East

IR422

Conflict and Peace Studies (withdrawn 16/17)

IR431

European Union Policy-Making in a Global Context (H) - (n/a 16/17)

IR433

The International Politics of EU Enlargement (H)

IR434

European Defence and Security (H)

IR445

China and the World

IR447

Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H)

IR448

American Grand Strategy (H)

IR449

Conflict and Peacebuilding (H)

IR452

Empire and Conflict in World Politics (H)

IR453

Global Business in International Relations (H)

IR454

Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (H)

IR461

Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan (n/a 16/17)

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H) (n/a 16/17)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) (n/a 16/17)

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H)

IR465

The International Politics of Culture and Religion (n/a 16/17)

IR466

Genocide (H)

IR467

International Political Economy of the Environment (H)

IR471

The Situations of the International Criminal Court (H)

IR481

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

IR482

Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies (n/a 16/17)

4

IR499

Dissertation