POL9: Conceptual issues in politics and international relations

This is solely an examination paper. Candidates are required to answer one from a choice of twelve general questions about different dimensions of politics and international relations. POL9 gives candidates the opportunity to think about different kinds of general questions in politics and international relations, and to use the knowledge and understanding they have acquired to reflect on these and develop arguments of their own at length. The paper is set to avoid advantaging or disadvantaging any particular choice of papers elsewhere in Part II. Some questions can be answered from a knowledge of political thought, some from a knowledge of international or domestic politics; most will encourage candidates to connect the two. There are classes for the paper in the Lent term.

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