International Relations Features


• The School of International Relations is the only one of its kind in Scotland and one of the few that exists in the UK. There are over 30 academic members of staff in the School.


• The School has been placed third in the UK in the 2012 Guardian University Guide. • There is a large and vibrant postgraduate community, with around 100 taught postgraduate and 80 research students in any year, many from overseas, as are several staff members.


• We have an established reputation throughout the world for high-quality teaching and research.


• Our research is recognised internationally for its contributions to a wide range of issues in international relations and regional studies.


• We have specialist areas in international security, terrorism studies, peace and conflict, international institutions, regional studies including the Middle East, Central Asia and Southern Africa, and international theory.


A Theoretical and Practical Discipline International Relations is a distinct discipline that draws on diplomatic history, political theory, political economy, political science and international law to provide theoretical perspectives to explain the processes and patterns of international affairs in the modern world. This enables you to assess developments in the international system and specific geographic regions. You will explore issues such as the origins of war and peace, foreign policy making, international trade, international terrorism, human rights, international organisations, international law, and the interaction of political and economic development. You also analyse the ways in which states relate to other international actors, and develop normative theories that relate the world as it is to the world as it might be. All of these have practical applications for you as both citizen and as potential decision maker.


International Relations has been taught at the University for 25 years; a department was created in 1990 which became a School in its own right in 2003. We are located at the centre of the University, occupying a purpose-built building which opened in 2007. All International Relations modules taught on our MLitt programmes are distinctive options available only to postgraduate students. At the same time you are incorporated into the wider research life of the School, taking part in our regular research seminars and occasional series organised on specific topics.


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