Study Details: MA 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
The world needs better politics: better ways of distributing resources and resolving conflicts.
How can we do this when our engagement with politics is most often local and national? The politics of the future is haunted by those of the past. In order to imagine and move towards building a new future, an understanding of history must underpin national and international politics.
This interdisciplinary MA seeks to address these problems by bringing together politics and contemporary history, with a particular focus on transnational ideas and institutions.
You'll benefit from a wide range of expertise across two outstanding departments, as well as access to numerous centres and institutes, including:
2:2 or equivalent in History or a relevant subject
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While completing your MA, you will gain essential skills in research, presentation and analysis. These skills are invaluable for progressing to a PhD and for a diverse range of careers.
Core modules
Making the Contemporary World: History, Politics and Ideas since 1945
Research Training
Option modules
You will also study three option modules. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Russian Foreign Policy from Alexander I to Vladimir Putin
Global Health: Decolonising Histories, Politics and Practice
Empire Remade
De/colonising Memory: Public Histories of Empire, Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Falling for Growth: Capitalism in the Modern World
Revolutionary Daughters, Militant Mothers and Radical Sisters: Women and Radicalism in the U.S. since 1865
Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
Global Visions and Local Actions: The History and Politics of International Health
The Frontiers of Reason, 1200-1450
Evolution and Society, c.1800-c.1945
Messiahs, Mojaheds, & Marxists: Social Protest, Resistance, & Revolution in Modern Iran
Mending the Past: History & the Politics of Guilt and Reparation
Politics
Theories and Policies of Development Governance
Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy
European Public Policy
Global Governance
Critical Theories in International Political Economy
Conflict and Development
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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