Taught Degrees


International Political Theory Entrance Requirements: A good degree with Honours from a UK university or its equivalent. Programme Duration: One year Aim of Programme: This innovative degree is located at the intersection of political theory and international relations. It aims to offer students of IR new conceptual tools for understanding the international system and students of philosophy and political theory the ability to transcend the boundaries of the sovereign state. Students in the IPT programme will take two core modules, which combine the history of political theory as it has related to the study of international relations with prominent methods of interpreting and analysing political theory texts. The weekly seminars consist of a close reading and analysis of classic and contemporary texts in international political thought, ranging from Hobbes’ Leviathan and Kant’s Perpetual Peace to Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political and Rawls’ Law of Peoples. In addition, students take two optional modules. The MLitt normally concludes with the writing of a dissertation of 15,000 words on an agreed topic.


International Security Studies Entrance Requirements: A good degree with Honours from a UK university or its equivalent. Programme Duration: One year Aim of Programme: This degree offers an intellectually stimulating analysis of key issues and debates in international security. Students in the ISS programme will take two subject- specific compulsory core modules which address major theories, concepts and issues in the study of international security and provide analytic tools that can be applied to other parts of the degree. Topics covered may include contemporary forms of warfare, the creation of international regimes, new forms of power projection, such as ‘soft security’ and economic power, and security-related debates arising in a context of globalisation. In addition students take two option modules. The combination of core and optional modules helps bridge the gap between theory and practice, providing students with tools for the analysis of a wide variety of contemporary security issues while preparing them for a variety of career paths, from further graduate study to media, consultancy and policy related work. The MLitt normally concludes with the writing of a dissertation of 15,000 words on an agreed topic.


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