MSc in International Relations (Research)
Programme Code: TMIRRE
Department: International Relations
For students starting this programme of study in 2018/19
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, optional courses to the value of one full unit and a dissertation.
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 |
IR436 Theories of International Relations (1.0) (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
Paper 2 |
MY4M1 Foundations of Social Research 1 (1.0) (withdrawn 2022/23) or | |
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MY4M2 Foundations of Social Research 2 (1.0) (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
Paper 3 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) # | |
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DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
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DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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EU426 The West (0.5) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
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EU431 European Integration from a Global Perspective (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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EU435 History and Theory of European Integration (0.5) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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EU437 Europe Beyond Modernity (0.5) | |
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GI413 Gender, Race and Militarisation (0.5) | |
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GV479 Nationalism (1.0) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
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IR412 International Institutions (1.0) | |
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IR415 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (1.0) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR431 European Union Policy Making in a Global-Context (0.5) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
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IR433 The International Politics of EU Enlargement (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5) | |
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IR445 Global Politics of China (1.0) | |
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IR447 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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IR448 American Grand Strategy (0.5) | |
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IR449 Conflict and Peacebuilding (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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IR452 Empire and Conflict in World Politics (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR453 Global Business in International Relations (0.5) | |
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IR454 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) | |
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IR461 Islam in World Politics (1.0) | |
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IR462 International Political Theory (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR464 The Politics of International Law (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion (1.0) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR466 Genocide (0.5) | |
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IR467 Global Environmental Politics (0.5) | |
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IR471 Critical International Law (0.5) | |
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IR472 Diplomacy in the 21st Century (0.5) | |
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IR473 China and the Global South (0.5) | |
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IR474 Revolutions and World Politics (0.5) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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IR475 Gender/ed/ing International Politics (0.5) | |
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IR476 Gender and Political Violence (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR477 The Politics of Peace & Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) | |
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IR478 Critical War Studies (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR480 The Politics of Inequality and Development (0.5) | |
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IR481 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR482 Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies (1.0) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
Paper 4 |
IR499 Dissertation in International Relations (1.0) | |
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
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