MPhil Politics and International Studies Modules
Modules options for the MPhil in Politics and International Studies may include:
Please note that these are subject to change each year and cannot be guaranteed in advance.
Michaelmas Term 2025
- Advanced Political Analysis
- Algorithmic Governance: Theories, Perspectives and Lived Realities
- Climate, Race and Colonialism
- Communication Technology and Contentious Politics
- Conspiracy and Democracy
- The Crisis of Party Democracy: Concept, Cases and Remedies
- Gender in/and International Politics
- Global Environmental Governance
- Global Governance of Illicit Finance
- Islam, Secularism, Global Movements
- The Unmaking of the Middle East from October 2023 - and its Remaking?
- The Political Economy of Postcolonial Africa
- The Global Great Powers Today
Lent Term 2026
- Crisis, Disorder and Change in International Politics
- Democracy and Empire in Modern Political Thought
- Democratic Backsliding and Resilience
- Embedding 21st Century Capitalism
- Gender and Politics in the Middle East
- Gender, Forced Migration, and Humanitarianism
- Geopolitics of 'the Lands in Between': alliance politics, energy security and historical memory in the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
- Global Black Resistance
- Global Capitalism and the Anthropocene
- Norms of Humanity
- Politics Of Global China
- Transnational Social Movements: Popular Politics and Meaning-Making in Global Perspective
- International Law under Pressure: Disputes and Force in a Changing International Legal System
- Political regimes: the end of democratisation?
Further information
- 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.