MA International Relations (International Law and World Order)

The course introduces students to theoretical and practical approaches to the study of the separate but related disciplines of International Law and International Relations. Its core modules, especially International Law and World Order, encourage interdisciplinary scholarship. The programme encourages the ability to delineate and evaluate issues, select relevant materials and produce arguments encompassing policy, existing practice and knowledge at an advanced level in International Law and International Relations. Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words.

Core modules

• International Relations
• International Law in Theory and Practice
• Contemporary Issues in International Law  

Optional modules

• Conflict and Conflict Resolution
• International Security Studies
• Political Integration in Europe
• Contemporary Diplomacy
• International Political Economy
• The United Nations, Humanitarian Intervention and
• Contemporary Warfare
• The Practice of Strategy in History
• Strategic Theory
• Modern Strategy
• The Origins and Causes of War
• Conflict in the Middle East
• Terrorism in a Globalising World
• Research Training - Philosophical Issues*
• Research Training - Data Collection & Analysis*
• Cold War Culture
• Contemporary Issues in International Law
• European Legal Frameworks: Constitutionalism,
• Citizenship and Democracy
• International Dispute Settlement
• International Human Rights Law
• International Law and Terrorism
• International Law in Theory and Practice
• Prosecuting International Crimes: Contemporary Issues and Problems
• War Law

 

For details of each module, see here.

For more information please download the programme specification for MA International Relations (International Law and World Order) (PDF).