Modules options for the MPhil in Politics and International Studies may include the following areas:
Please note that these are subject to change each year and cannot be guaranteed in advance.
Michaelmas Term 2025
- Algorithmic Governance: Theories, Perspectives and Lived Realities
- The Great Powers Today
- The Crisis of Party Democracy: Origins, Consequences, Remedies
- Conspiracy and Democracy
- The Middle East in Global Politics
- Islam, Secularism, Global Movements
- Advanced Political Analysis
- Global Governance of Illicit Finance
- Global Environmental Governance
- The Political Economy of Postcolonial Africa
- Communication Technology and Politics
- Gender in/and International Politics
- Climate, Race and Colonialism
Lent Term 2026
- Global Black Resistance
- International Crisis, Decline and Change
- Democracy and Empire in Modern Political Thought
- Politics Of Global China
- Transnational Social Movements: Popular Politics and Meaning-Making in Global Perspective
- Geopolitics of the Lands in Between: alliance politics, energy security and historical memory in the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
- Gender and Politics in the Middle East
- Gender, Forced Migration and Humanitarianism
- Norms of Humanity
- Capitalism and the Anthropocene
- International Constitutional Law
- The Welfare State: Past, Present and Future
- Democratic Backsliding and Resilience
- Political Regimes
Further options may become available in due course. Please note that the courses above may be subject to change and size limits.
We cannot guarantee that students will receive their first nomination of modules.
We will ask you to nominate four modules from the options above. Students will also need to complete a mandatory Research Methods module. More information on these will be sent to you nearer the time.
Please note courses may not run if fewer than seven students sign up.