Modules choices 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 2023
- Advanced Political Analysis
- Britain and the Geopolitics of the Baltic, c. 1600-1856
- Decolonising Politics and International Relations
- Embedding Twenty First Century Capitalism
- From the Printing Press to Facebook & Twitter
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Historical Global Governance
- Historical International Relations
- International Constitutional Law (runs across Michaelmas and Lent terms)
- Judging Politics and Economics from the Global South
- Politics in China
- Religion and Politics: Islam, Secularism, Global Movements
- Rhetorical Leadership
- States and State Formation
- The Great Powers in Europe Today
- The Political Thought of Michael Foucault
- Theorising Race and Class in Contemporary Capitalism
Lent Term 2024
- African Environments: Knowledge, Power & History
- AI, Structural Injustice and Political Responsibility
- Communication, Technology, and Politics
- Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy
- Crisis, Decline, and Change in International Politics
- Empire, Colony, Subject: A Genealogy of Ideas
- Fiscal Politics in Westminster Democracies
- Geopolitics of ‘the Lands in Between:’ alliance politics, energy security and historical memory in the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
- Global Connected Histories of World Politics
- International Constitutional Law (runs across Michaelmas and Lent terms)
- Latin America in the International Order
- Political regimes: the end of democratisation?
- Political Theory and Architecture
- Reimagining the World: A New History of the United Nations and its Possible Futures
- The Crisis of Party Democracy: Origins, Consequences, Remedies
- The Middle East in Global Politics
- The Democratic Politics of Monetary Policy (or lack thereof)
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 choice of modules.
We will ask you to choose six modules from the options above, as well as one reserve choice. Students will also have to complete a mandatory statistics course and a 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.