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 2024
- Algorithmic Governance: Theories, Perspectives and Lived Realities
- Buddhism, power, and politics in Southeast Asia
- From the Printing Press to Facebook and Twitter: Communication Technologies, Fake News and Politics
- Global Capitalism and the Anthropocene
- Global Environmental Governance
- International Relations Theory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Judging Politics and Economics from the Democratic Global South
- Political Regimes: The End of Democratisation?
- Islam, Secularism, Global Movements
- The Great Powers Today
- The Political Thought of Michael Foucault
- Democratic Backsliding and Resilience
Lent Term 2025
- African Environments: Politics, History, Knowledge
- AI, Structural Injustice and Political Responsibility
- Comparative Political Economy
- Conspiracy and Democracy
- Democracy and Empire in Modern Political Thought
- International Crisis, Decline, Change
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Geopolitics of ‘the Lands in Between:’ alliance politics, energy security and historical memory in the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
- International Constitutional Law
- Mainstreaming Neonationalism
- Norms of Humanity
- Politics in China
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.