provide students with a range of options that offer in depth coverage of theories of conflict, political violence and civil wars, human security, terrorism and insurgency, including the implications for strategies of statebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, peace processes and conflict resolution. Concepts and theories are analysed across a range of global, regional, national and subnational contexts, including detailed comparative case-studies. The programme includes as a compulsory element some basic methodological training in quantitative and/or qualitative methods, with provision for more advanced skills as required. Students must take courses to the value of four full units as shown. All students are required to write a 10,000-word dissertation. Part-time students may take up to four courses in their first year.
Graduate destinations
Previous graduates have developed careers in the policy world in governments and public service, international organisations, security agencies, the media, NGOs, finance, as well as providing an excellent foundation for those students who wish to progress to a PhD programme.
This programme is based in the Department of Government, but the teaching is interdisciplinary and carried out by Government, the International Relations Department, the Department of International Development and the European Institute. It brings together many of the unique resources of these departments into a leading, interdisciplinary programme on globalisation, global governance and global politics. The programme brings together the expertise
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the Middle East and Latin America, and Europe). All students must write a 10,000 word dissertation.
Compulsory courses
(* half unit)The Politics of Globalisation examines the nature, the causes and the political consequences of globalisation in a variety of domains, including security, culture, the economy, and the environment.
Global Civil Society* (required for students on the Global Civil Society stream only) provides students with the conceptual and empirical background that allows them to critically engage with the complex debate over global civil society.
Dissertation.
Optional courses
Students will be expected to choose courses to the value of two units (one and a half units for those following the Global Civil Stream).Environmental Problems and Development Interventions* Global Environmental Governance* African Development*
Complex Emergencies* Global Health and Development Global Political Economy of Development, I* International Institutions and
Late Development* Managing Humanitarianism*
Global Civil Society* Human Security*
Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia*
The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries*
European Integration from a Global Perspective*
European Models of Capitalism* Ethnic Diversity and International Society* European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State*
Partisanship in Europe*
Globalisation, Gender and Development Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction*
Globalisation, Gender and Development: Policy and Practice*
Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation Democracy in East and South Asia* Government and Politics in China* National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation States and Markets*
Globalisation and Democracy* The State and Political Institutions in Latin America*
Democracy and Development in Latin America*
War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination*
Nationalism
International Migration and Immigration Management* Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Totalitarianism*
Democratisation and its Discontents in Southeast Asia*
Local Power in an Era of Globalisation, Democratisation and Decentralisation* The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution Comparative Democratization in a Global Age*
Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies*
Popular Politics in the Middle East* The History and Politics of the Modern Middle East*
Nationalism and Global Politics* Contemporary India: The World’s Largest Democracy in the Early 21st Century* Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives* Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards* International Political Economy of the Environment
International Institutions The EU in the World
The International Relations of the Middle East
Conflict and Peace Studies Economic Diplomacy of LSE staff at the cutting edge of debates
about globalisation and global politics. We will consider applicants with a 2:1 or above in any discipline, with a considered interest in the area covered by the MSc. Students can also apply for the Global Civil Society stream of the MSc Global Politics, which has a second compulsory course focusing on knowledge that can enhance the strategic capacity of global civil society organisations.
Programme details
The MSc includes a compulsory course, The Politics of Globalisation, which all students must take. It draws on specialist knowledge from across the LSE’s Politics staff to offer a comprehensive introduction to the changing structure of the global order, and the contemporary challenges of global politics. Students can also choose the Global Civil Society stream, in which case they must take a second compulsory course, Global Civil Society.
In addition, students will take other full unit and/or half unit courses to the total value of two units (one and a half units for those following the Global Civil Society stream). Students can choose from over fifty courses related to various aspects of global politics. Some of the courses focus on specific policy areas, notably global political economy, global security and war, the global environment, global health, the political economy of development, gender politics, and other key issues of global politics. Other courses focus on specific world regions (East, South and Southeast Asia, Africa,
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Diplomacy*
Conflict and Peacebuilding* Comparative Political Economy Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan Introduction to International Political Theory*
The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention* The Politics of International Law* Genocide*
Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies
World Poverty and Human Rights* Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development* Please visit lse.ac.uk/grad/gp for further information on the programme content. Please note that not every course is available each year and that some courses may only be available with the permission of the course convenor and/or may be subject to space.