Course Overview
This unique multidisciplinary programme is designed to allow students to undertake sustained and focused study across the disciplines of Politics, Philosophy and Religion. It particularly encourages students to explore the interface between these related areas, and allows for selection of optional modules across the whole department.
Core Modules:
- Major Approaches to the Study of International Relations
- What is Philosophy? Methods, Aims, Debates
- Studying Religion
- Theory and Method in Postgraduate Studies
- Dissertation (20,000 words)
Taught Modules in Politics and International Relations:
Choices will be guided by the Masters specialism in many cases, but others allow a free choice from the following list. Modules offered may vary year to year.
- Major Approaches to the Study of International Relations
- Approaches to Peace Studies
- International Organisation and Foreign Policy
- Globalisation, the State and Democracy in the Third World
- US Foreign Policy
- International Political Economy and the 'Digital Age'
- States, Markets and Globalisation
- The European Union
- Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
- Conflict Transformation and Resolution
- Conflict Management and Contemporary Conflicts
- Comparative Defence Policy
- Security and Modernity
- Globalisation: Its Meanings, Causes and Consequences
- Conflict, International Intervention and Global Governance
- Theorising Security and War
- Political Theory and Modernity: Order, Value, and Critique
- Politics and Policy-Making in the UK
- Politics and Policy-Making in Liberal Democracy
- Theories and Concepts in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- Issues and Practice in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- Social Capital: Making Democracy Work
- Diasporas and Minorities of the Middle East
- International Relations and Politics of South Asia