Study Details: MA 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
The world today appears in a state of moral flux.
The inequalities and injustices of the current global system are increasingly being contested around the world, but it is not yet clear which direction global politics might head this century. Learn the ethical norms governing today’s global politics of trade, migration, health, sustainable development, conflict, and global security challenges and the alternatives being proposed. By familiarizing you with diverse theoretical perspectives on the issues, this course will enable you better understand how today’s global politics was ethically conceived and what its future governing norms might resemble.
2:2 or equivalent.
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Our students go on to careers in international organisations, the media, law, the civil service, politics, journalism and business.
This MA course is an excellent pathway to careers in a wide range of private and public sector organisations, and for further academic study in international relations and political science.
Career opportunities
Core modules
Themes and Theories in International Relations
Ethics and World Politics
Dissertation (the focus of the dissertation should relate to the degree title)
Option modules
You will study four 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.
Challenges to Policy-making in Democratising Countries
Comparative Institutions and Public Policy
Conflict & Development
Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy
Theories of the Policy Process
Africa and International Politics
Global Governance
Critical Theories of International Political Economy
New Security Challenges
Politics of Migration
Principles of Policy Advice
Public Management and Delivery
Theories & Policies of Development Governance
Governing for the Environment
Gendering Politics: An Intersectional Approach
Applying Human Rights
Global Development Politics
The Political Economy of Global China
Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
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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