LSE-PKU Double Degree in MSc International Affairs

Programme code: TMINAF

Department: International History

Department:

For all first and second year students in 2017/18.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Two-year programme. Students take the first year at Peking University, and the second year at LSE as follows:

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

HY400 

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

2

Course(s) to the value of one full unit from the list below

 

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 (not available 2017/18)

IR419

International Relations of the Middle East

IR431

European Union Policy Making in a Global Context (H) (not available 2017/18)

IR433

The International Politics of EU Enlargement (H)

IR434

European Defence and Security (H)

IR439

Diplomacy (H) (not available 2017/18)

IR447

Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H) (not available 2017/18)

IR455

Economic Diplomacy (H)

IR467

Global Environmental Politics (H)

IR468

The Political Economy of Trade (H)

IR469

Politics of Money in the World Economy (H)‡

3

Course(s) to the value of one full unit from the list below, not already taken under Paper 2:

 

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

IR419

International Relations of the Middle East

IR431

European Union Policy Making in a Global Context (H) (not available 2017/18)

IR433

The International Politics of EU Enlargement (H)

IR434

European Defence and Security (H)

IR447

Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H) (not available 2017/18)

IR455

Economic Diplomacy (H)

IR467

Global Environmental Politics (H)

IR468

The Political Economy of Trade (H)

IR469

Politics of Money in the World Economy (H)‡

GV479

Nationalism (not available 2017/18)

HY411

European Integration in the Twentieth Century

HY422

President, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: from Roosevelt to Reagan 1933-89

HY423

Empire, Colonialism and Globalization 

HY429

Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War, 1939-91

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

HY435

Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS

HY436

Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

HY439

War Cultures, 1890-1945 (not available 2017/18)

HY440

The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy

HY441

Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia

HY444

The Cold War in Latin America (not available 2017/18)

HY448

Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War

HY459

The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950

HY461

East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945  

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 (not available 2017/18)

 

HY471

European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948

HY472

China and the External World, 1711-1839

HY473

The GDR and Communist Parties in Europe 1949-1990

HY477

Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1980s

HY478

The Origins of the Modern World: Europe, China and India, 1600-1800

4

HY498

Dissertation: LSE-PKU Double Degree MSc in International Affairs; MSc Theory and History of International Relations

Notes

‡ With permission of the course teacher.

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