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MPhil in Politics and International Studies

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MSt in International Relations

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PhD in Politics and International Studies

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    • Pathways from ​Disorder to Order: Where History Meets Theory
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    • POLIS Centre Events
    • Inaugural Lecture
    • Cambridge International Relations and History Conference
    • Annual Lectures
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    • POLIS Political Economy Seminar Series
    • Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar Series
    • Contemporary Political Thought Seminar Series
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Study

  • Study overview
  • Undergraduate study
  • Postgraduate study
    • MPhil in African Studies
    • MPhil in Development Studies
    • MPhil in Latin American Studies
    • MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
    • MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies
    • MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History
    • MPhil in Politics and International Studies
    • MSt in International Relations
    • PhD in Development Studies
    • PhD in Latin American Studies
    • PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
    • PhD in Politics and International Studies

Postgraduates

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The Department of Politics and International Studies is currently home to approximately 350 postgraduate students, spread across our MPhil, MSt and PhD courses.

Postgraduate study with us can be associated directly with the Department of Politics and International Studies or with one of our Centres.

Our work is inherently multidisciplinary so we have close links with many other departments including History, Sociology, Psychology, Law, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Social Anthropology.

The courses we offer

PhD in Politics and International Studies
PhD in Development Studies
PhD in Latin American Studies
PhD in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies
MSt in International Relations
MPhil in Politics and International Studies
MPhil in African Studies
MPhil in Development Studies
MPhil in Latin American Studies
MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies
MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies
MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History

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