Professor Alexander Evans (CBG.5.29)

This course is available on the Double Master of Public Administration (LSE-Columbia), Double Master of Public Administration (LSE-Sciences Po), Double Master of Public Administration (LSE-University of Toronto), MPA Dual Degree (LSE and Hertie), MPA Dual Degree (LSE and NUS), MPA Dual Degree (LSE and Tokyo), MPA in Data Science for Public Policy, Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The evolution of international policymaking within governments; the role of diplomatic services and Foreign Ministries; national security and intelligence services; the role of Presidential/Prime Minister's offices; the evolution of international organisations; regional and functional organisations; decision-making and governance in international organisations; the interface between international and domestic policymaking; crisis management and response; international security architecture; delivering effect in international policy. The course will include guest speakers from practice (from the United Nations and national diplomats) and include worked case-studies of how international policymaking is applied in practice in different national and international contexts.

The course would be deliberately international and comparative in nature, drawing on different perspectives, traditions and cultural practices around international policy.

15 hours of lectures, 16 hours and 30 minutes of seminars and 3 hours of workshops in the WT.

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay and 1 other piece of coursework in the WT.

Students will submit very short outlines (bullet-points, limited to one page) for both the policy memo and essay for formative feedback prior to submitting the final written versions for summative assessment.

• Nicole Pelruth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (2021)
• Kishen Rana, Asian Diplomacy: The Foreign Ministries of China, India, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand (2009)
• Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (2007)
• Sylvia Bashevkin, Women as Foreign Policy Leaders (2018)
• Ivor Roberts, Satow's Diplomatic Practice (2017)
• William Burns, The Back Channel: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World (2017)

A detailed reading list will be developed for the course.

Essay (60%, 3000 words) in the WT Week 10.
Policy memo (40%) in the WT Week 7.