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IRQ300
Study Group: International Relations (Year 3)
2 hour weekly Study Group for International Relations students (Year 3)
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PO-248
International Security
This module provides students with an examination of international security. The module starts with a discussion of strategic studies as a discipline. It discusses traditional (military) security studies looking at traditional concerns surrounding military power and the use of force. Following the evolution in security studies and in understandings of security the module `broaden¿ and `deepens¿ its scope. The module looks at sectors beyond security such as society, the economy, and the environment. It also deepens the account of security by looking at actors below the states, such as groups and the single individual (human security). Finally, the module analyses alternative approaches to security such as critical, feminist, and post-modern approaches to security.
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PO-3117
Politics and International Development
This module explores the role of politics or political science as a distinct social science discipline in the study of international development. It explores key theories from politics/political science that are relevant to the study of international development, their real world applications and the debates to which they give rise. The module also examines the politics/political science underpinnings of key policy debates within leading institutions tasked with promoting international development (including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The module examines the role of the state, the market and civil society in promoting international development and at the value and limitations of this triadic model.
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PO-3317
Dissertation
The Politics and International Relations dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module for Politics and International Relations students only, which runs across both semesters of Level 6. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching on the Politics and International Relations degree. The topic must fall within staff research and teaching interests.
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PO-3319
Researching Politics 1
Researching Politics (RP) provides students with the skills that underlie the process of conducting and communicating cutting-edge research in Politics and International Relations.
RP works by creating topic groups, each comprised of 8-10 students. Each group will follow a bespoke course set out by their topic tutor, guiding them through the literature in a substantive research area. Students are invited to select a list of preferred options in the first teaching week of the term. This list is then used to assign students to topics and group sessions run from the second week of teaching onwards.
Alongside the topic-specific teaching, there is a general lecture series focusing on discovering, analysing and presenting complex information. The lecture series also focuses on dealing with the ups and downs of working as part of a team.
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PO-3320
Researching Politics 2
Researching Politics 2 (RP2) is the follow-on module from RP1 and it acts as the culmination for the subject knowledge and transferable skills developed in that module. RP2 puts the creative emphasis in the hands of the students, with the module convenor and topic tutors giving guidance and feedback to facilitate the realisation of research conceived, developed, executed and presented by students. In this way, it tries to approximate the worlds of further study and work into which students will be progressing following the completion of their degree schemes.
It is a module where all of the summative assessments are comprised of group work, although individual marks can be varied depending on each student¿s performance. Students are also required to submit an individual self-assessment, detailing what they have learned about their own strengths and weaknesses on the basis of the sustained group work.
In RP2, you will extend and deepen the research undertaken in RP1 and continue to meet regularly in order to share ideas, opinions and sources in your groups. These meetings will include several where the topic tutor provides guidance and feedback as well as those where the meetings are student-led.
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PO-M35
Approaches to International Relations
The module explores a variety of approaches to the study of internation relations. It focuses on key issues which have become central to the sunject, notably the changing states system and the emergence of major non state actors, economic globalisation and security studies. It also examines key theoretical approaches, notably realism, liberalism and Marxism; Neo-realism and neo-Liberalism; and reflectivist critiques of rationalism, including constructivism, critical theory, post-structuralism and feminism.
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PO-M40
Southeast Asian Security
Security is a multifaceted and contested concept that provides an analytical prism to capture the depth and breadth of issues impacting on human, state and regional peace and stability. Southeast Asia not only manifests the different security issues that face the developing world but the states in this region have begun to encounter the security problems that plague the developed world. The region thus offers an opportunity to examine how developing states can overcome the traditional problems that undermine the security of the third world, and whether these states can avoid the security dilemmas that generate insecurity amongst states in the international system. The aim of the module is two-fold: first, to determine what the security issues of the Third World are and how the states of Southeast Asia have sought to solve them; second, to understand the reasons behind tensions amongst the members of ASEAN, and between ASEAN and China, and to determine whether the region¿s peacekeeping structures are adequate.
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PO-PX10
The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M (Semester of Study Abroad)
This module is delivered at The Bush School of Government and Public Service for those students who participate in an Extended MA Programme in either International Relations or Public Policy.
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PO-PX20
University of Oklahoma (Semester of Study Abroad)
This module is delivered at The University of Oklahoma for those students who participate in an Extended MA Programme in International Security and Development.
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PO-X240
PO-X240 United International College (UIC)
This module is delivered at United International College, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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PO-X241
PO-X241 United International College (UIC)
This module is delivered at United International College, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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PO-X242
PO-X242 United International College (UIC)
This module is delivered at United International College, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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PO-X243
PO-X243 United International College (UIC)
This module is delivered at United International College, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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POX210
POX210 City University, Hong Kong
This module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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POX211
POX211 City University, Hong Kong
This Module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme.
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POX212
POX212 City University, Hong Kong
This Module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme.
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POX213
POX213 City University, Hong Kong
This Module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme.
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POX214
City University, Hong Kong
This Module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme.
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POX215
City University, Hong Kong
This Module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme.
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POX265
POX265 Universitat Mannheim
This module is delivered at Mannheim University, Germany for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme
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POX266
POX266 Universitat Mannheim
This module is delivered at Mannheim University, Germany for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme
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POX267
POX267 Universitat Mannheim
This module is delivered at Mannheim University, Germany for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme
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POX268
POX268 Universitat Mannheim
This module is delivered at Mannheim University, Germany for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme