MSc Development Policy and Politics
Course Overview
This MSc in Development Policy and Politics directly links academic theory with practical policy, focusing on the critical role political systems and actors play in both facilitating and undermining development. The program equips students with the analytical skills to understand and address the political drivers behind major global challenges like poverty, conflict, and governance. Graduates are prepared for impactful careers across government, NGOs, and international agencies.
Key Program Highlights
- Taught by leading thinkers who bridge the gap between academic research and real-world policy application
- Focus on political economy analysis, a skill highly sought after by development agencies and governments
- Explores the politics of aid, governance, and the relationship between global and local institutions
- Benefit from engagement with major research programs like the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
- Prepares for diverse careers in international development, policy-making, NGOs, and consultancy
Course Overview
This MSc in Development Policy and Politics directly links academic theory with practical policy, focusing on the critical role political systems and actors play in both facilitating and undermining development. The program equips students with the analytical skills to understand and address the political drivers behind major global challenges like poverty, conflict, and governance. Graduates are prepared for impactful careers across government, NGOs, and international agencies.
Key Program Highlights
- Taught by leading thinkers who bridge the gap between academic research and real-world policy application
- Focus on political economy analysis, a skill highly sought after by development agencies and governments
- Explores the politics of aid, governance, and the relationship between global and local institutions
- Benefit from engagement with major research programs like the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
- Prepares for diverse careers in international development, policy-making, NGOs, and consultancy
Requirements
Modules
- LM International Development
- LM Development Policy and Politics
- LM Dissertation (International Development)
- Gender and Development
- LM Conflict and Development
- LM Environment and Sustainable Development
- LM Human Resource Management and Development
- LM Managing Projects
- LM Poverty, Inequality and Development
- LM Public Management and Leadership
- Public Economic Management
- LM Contemporary Perspectives on Conflict
- LM Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics
- LM International Political Economy
- LM International Relations Theory
- LM Politics and International Relations of the Asia Pacific
- LM Politics and the State
- LM Rising Powers
- LM Security Studies
- LM US Foreign and Defence Policy
- LM Democracy, Dictatorship and Development
- LM Governance for Development
- LM Disability and Inclusive Development
- LM Grand Strategy
- LM Human Resource Development Policy
- LM Making Policy
- LM Post Conflict Reconstruction & Development
- LM Public Financial Management
- LM Public Sector Reform
- LM Dilemmas in International Relations
- LM Diplomacy and Statecraft
- LM Doing Political Research
- LM Ethnic Conflict and its management: theories and case
- LM Global Cooperation on Global Problems
- LM Global Environmental Governance
- LM Globalisation & Governance
- LM Post-conflict Peacebuilding and International Order
- LM Terrorism and Political Violence
