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Course Content

The course offers a range of modules that will deepen students’ knowledge of international politics. All modules are taught around a weekly seminar and assessed on the basis of assignments and exams. The number of modules on offer and topics covered, and whether there is any choice of module topics, varies from year to year depending on student numbers.

Students also attend the Department's Monday Seminar Series, which features speakers from a variety of fields presenting on a topics such as far-right parties, the International Criminal Court, human rights, and Irish fiscal policy.

  • MSc in International Politics Handbook 2024-25

    • Module outlines for AY 2025/26 are currently being updated and may be subject to change)
    While the modules and module descriptors are set out below as accurately as possible, additions or removals of available modules, and changes of module content, instructors, and assessment procedures are often unavoidable between now and the start of the 2025-26 academic year because of changes in staff availability, resource constraints, and other pressures. Thank you for your understanding.

Required Course Modules 2024-25

Optional Modules 2024-25

Students select either option 1 or option 2

Option 1:

Two 5 ECTS modules in the first half of term and two 5 ECTS modules in the second half of term

Option 2:

POP88212 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods (10 ECTS) and choose one 5 ECTS module in the first half of term and one 5 ECTS module in the second half of term

Note: MSc modules may involve two or more hours of instruction per week, please check Module outlines
Michaelmas Term
Hilary Term

    POP88212 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods (10 ECTS)

    First half (weeks 22 - 26)

  • POP88044 Government and Politics of the EU (draft)

  • POP88104 Russian Politics Under Putin (draft)

  • POP88134 European Identity (draft)

  • POP88144 Economic Inequality and Democracy (draft)

  • POP88174 Political Economy A (draft)

  • POP88244 The History of International Relations as an Academic Discipline (draft)

  • POP88294 Business and Politics (draft)

    Second half (weeks 29 - 33)

  • POP88084 European Union Policy Making (draft)

  • POP88194 States and Society in the Global South (draft) (3 hours)

  • POP88234 The Politics of Energy (draft)

  • POP88264 Varieties of Authoritarianism (draft)

  • POP88284 Politics of Eastern Europe (draft)

  • POP88324 Chinese Politics (draft)

  • POP88344 Atrocity Prevention and Response (draft)
Hilary Term
  • POP88162 Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods
Trinity Term
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