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MSc in Theory and History of International Relations

Programme Code: TMTHHYIR2

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations


Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four units, including a dissertation as shown.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) #

 

HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0)

 

HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0)

 

HY435 Ideology, State, Jihad: Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)

 

HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) #

 

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

 

IR415 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (1.0) #  (not available 2024/25)

 

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) #

 

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

 

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) #  (not available 2024/25)

 

IR462 Theory of International Society (0.5) #

 

IR464 The Politics of International Human Rights (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

 

IR471 Critical International Law (0.5)

 

IR479 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5) #

 

IR480 The Politics of Inequality and Development (0.5)

 

IR481 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

EU475 Europe and the Politics of Secularism (0.5)

 

EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5)

 

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0)

 

HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (1.0)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0)

 

HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0)

 

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 (1.0)  (withdrawn 2022/23)

 

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) #

 

HY463 The Roots, Origins and Dynamics of the Cold War, 1917-1962 (1.0)

 

HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0) #

 

HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0)

 

HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China & India, 1550-1840 (1.0)

 

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY486 The Anti-Slave-Trade Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0)

 

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5)

 

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY4A5 Women as Weapons: The Conservative Political Tradition in the Cold War (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4A6 Technocracy, Social Engineering and Politics in the Era of the World Wars, 1914-1945 (0.5)  (withdrawn 2022/23)

 

HY4A7 Islam, Power and Culture in Mughal India (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY4A9L China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) 1  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4A9M China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) 2  (withdrawn 2023/24)

Paper 2 options list

Paper 1 options list

Paper 4

HY498 Dissertation: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-PKU Double Degree MSc in International Affairs; MSc Theory and History of International Relations (1.0)

Paper 2 options list

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) #

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

IR415 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (1.0) #  (not available 2024/25)

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) #

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) #  (not available 2024/25)

IR462 Theory of International Society (0.5) #

IR464 The Politics of International Human Rights (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

IR471 Critical International Law (0.5)

IR479 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5) #

IR480 The Politics of Inequality and Development (0.5)

IR481 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2023/24)

IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)


Paper 1 options list

HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) # *

HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0) *

HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0) *

HY435 Ideology, State, Jihad: Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0) *

HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0) *


Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

* means available with permission

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

1 : HY4A9L can not be taken with HY4A9M

2 : HY4A9M can not be taken with HY4A9L

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