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Royal Holloway, University of London, MSc, International Relations

Royal Holloway, University of London
 United Kingdom

You will study three core units (chosen from a total of five options, listed below), an additional core unit (options vary from year to year), two elective units, and write a dissertation over the summer. Course units include one of three disciplinary training pathway courses, a course in research design, analysing international politics, and specialist options in international relations.

Core course units:

  • Analysing International Politics
  • Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in Politics and International Relations
  • Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Politics and International Relations
  • Foundations of Contemporary Political Theory
  • Research Design in Politics and International Relations
  • Dissertation (MSc only)

Elective course units:

(N.B. Not all course units are available every year)

  • China in the World
  • Comparative Political Executives
  • Contemporary Continental Political Theory
  • Culture and Community
  • Democracy and Citizenship in Europe
  • Democracy in Comparative Perspective
  • Foreign Policy of the European Union
  • Human Rights
  • Identity, Power and Radical Political Theory
  • Issues in United States Foreign Policy
  • The Politics of Ethnic Multiculturalism
  • Internet and New Media Politics
  • Media, War and Conflict
  • Politics of Forced Migration
  • Sovereignty, Rights, and Justice
  • Theories of Globalisation
  • Africa and International Politics
  • Biopolitics and Security
  • Political Violence
  • Transnational Security and the Law of Targeting

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