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International Relations
Key Information
Overview

As a discipline, International Relations has undergone many
transformations. From a discipline which focused closely on
a certain set of interactions between sovereign states, it has
expanded greatly to encompass a much wider set of questions
about the nature of international or global political structures and
processes. Correspondingly, a whole set of theoretical tools have
also emerged to try to explain or interp ret this newly expanded field.
The course aims to provide you with an innovative grounding in
the central theoretical and practical aspects of both the traditional
and the expanded conceptions of International Relations. It also aims
to equip you with the conceptual and analytical skills to think critically
about the nature of global structures and processes. These skills are
fundamental to postgraduate study and invaluable for vocational
and personal development and for future professional life.

Course type
MA, MRes

Mode of study

Full-time or part-time

Indicative entry
requirements
2:2 in relevant subject

For a list of full entry
requirements please visit
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses

Contact email

[e-mail]

The course is taught over a 12 month period (September to September
and January to January). It is available both full-time and part-time.
Students completing an MA at Keele have gone to pursue a variety
of careers in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Indicative modules

You will study the following core modules:
• Advanced Approaches to Politics and International Relations*
• Research in Action*
• Perspectives in Politics and International Relations*
• Dissertation
The following is a list of indicative elective modules:
• The Changing International Agenda
• The Theory of Global Security
• Diplomatic Law
• Diplomatic Practice
• Environmental Diplomacy
• The EU and the Global Commons
• War, Memory and Popular Culture
• Rethinking Fault-lines Beyond the East-West Divide in Global Politics
• Crisis, Continuity and Change: Trends and Issues in Contemporary
Global History
• Maritime Security
• Party Politics and the European Union
You will also complete a Dissertation.
*Please note: this is a pathway of the MA in Politics and International
Relations. For further details on the course, please visit our
website: www.keele.ac.uk/spire/postgraduate

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For more information please visit

keele.ac.uk/pg/internationalrelations

In the 2015 Research Excellence
Framework, 93% of the
research submitted in Politics
and International Studies was
judged to be in the top three
categories of world-leading,
internationally excellent and
internationally recognised.

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