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 2022
- Border, Migration and Displacement
- Britain and the Geopolitics of the Baltic, c. 1600-1856
- Cultures of War
- From the Printing Press to Facebook & Twitter
- Global Capitalism and the Anthropocene
- Historical International Relations
- International Constitutional Law (runs across Michaelmas and Lent terms)
- International Relations Theory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Law and Politics in Authoritarian and Developing Countries
- Religion and Politics
- Rhetorical Leadership
- Sound, Ecology, and Politics
- Technology and Global Social Justice
- The Global Governance of Illicit Finance
- The Political Thought of Michael Foucault
Lent Term 2023
- Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy
- Decolonising Politics and International Relations
- Empire, Colony, Subject: A Genealogy of Ideas
- Fighting for Status in International Relations
- Fiscal Politics in Westminster Democracies
- India or Pakistan?: Muslims' Ideas of the Nation in the Twentieth Century
- International Constitutional Law (runs across Michaelmas and Lent terms)
- Latin America in the International Order
- Political Economy and the Global South: Paradigms, Crises, Alternatives
- Political Theories of the Environment
- Politics and the Anthropocene
- Politics in China
- Religion and Politics: Islam, Secularism, Global Movements
- The Crisis of Party Democracy: Concpet, Cases and Remedies
- The Great Powers in Europe Today
- The Middle East in Global Politics
- Transnational Authority in World Politics
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.