Global Security (MSc)

Optional courses

Students on this programme will have the chance to choose from a wide range of options.* Some of these options include:

• Critical Perspectives on Securities and Vulnerabilities
• Comparative Approaches to Warfare and Violent Conflict
• Systems and Networks
• European Security Institutions & Law
• Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union
• Globalisation and European Integration
• Globalisation and the New Security Agenda in Central and Eastern Europe
• Society, environment and the concept of sustainable development in post Soviet Russia
• Post-Soviet Russia: Renegotiating Global and Local Identities
• The European Union in International Politics and Development
• International Relations Theory
• The Internet and Civil Society
• Human Rights and Global Politics
• Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency, 1800-present
• British Military Power Since 1945
• The American Way of War: From the Revolution to the War on Terror
• Social Change and Social Justice: Activism, Social Movements and Democracy
• Development, Postcolonialism and Environment
• The Global Criminal Economy
• Ethics in global politics
• Media, War and Security
• Modern Islamic Thought

*Not all options will be available in every given year and additional options may be made available. A full list of options is provided to students at the beginning of each academic year.