MA/PGDip International Security and Terrorism
Course Overview
This MA in International Security and Terrorism offers an advanced exploration of contemporary global security challenges, from political violence and terrorism to interstate conflict and security cooperation. The program equips students with a sophisticated understanding of the forces and power dynamics shaping the post-Cold War international order through rigorous theoretical, empirical, and ethical inquiry. You will graduate with the critical insight needed to analyze the complex threats to 21st-century global stability.
Key Program Highlights
- Study under internationally renowned, research-active specialists in Security Studies
- Gain expertise in critical areas including political violence, terrorism, and conflict management
- Choose from an extensive and flexible range of specialist optional modules
- Join a vibrant academic community through the International Relations and Security Theory research group
- Enhance your career prospects for roles in government, international organizations, and policy-making
Course Overview
This MA in International Security and Terrorism offers an advanced exploration of contemporary global security challenges, from political violence and terrorism to interstate conflict and security cooperation. The program equips students with a sophisticated understanding of the forces and power dynamics shaping the post-Cold War international order through rigorous theoretical, empirical, and ethical inquiry. You will graduate with the critical insight needed to analyze the complex threats to 21st-century global stability.
Key Program Highlights
- Study under internationally renowned, research-active specialists in Security Studies
- Gain expertise in critical areas including political violence, terrorism, and conflict management
- Choose from an extensive and flexible range of specialist optional modules
- Join a vibrant academic community through the International Relations and Security Theory research group
- Enhance your career prospects for roles in government, international organizations, and policy-making
Requirements
Modules
- LM Dissertation
- LM Security Studies
- LM Terrorism and Political Violence
- LM China and the World
- LM Conflict, Statehood and Sovereignty in World Politics
- LM Dilemmas in International Relations
- LM Doing Political Research
- LM Ethnic Conflict and its management: theories and case
- LM Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics
- LM Global Cooperation on Global Problems
- LM Global Environmental Governance
- LM Globalisation & Governance
- LM Grand Strategy
- LM International Political Economy
- LM International Relations Theory
- LM Nuclear Weapons in International Relations
- LM Politics and the State
- LM Post-conflict Peacebuilding and International Order
- LM The Politics of NATO
- LM US Foreign and Defence Policy
- LM Varieties of Politics: The Comparative Politics of Parties, Institutions and Regimes
