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MSc course guides and videos 2025/26

On this page you can read the course guides or view short videos for our taught postgraduate courses to help you find out about which courses are right for you.

Please note that LSE term names changed in 2023/24. Some of the videos below may refer to previous term names: Michaelmas Term has become Autumn Term, Lent Term has become Winter Term, and Summer Term has become Spring Term. Please visit Term dates for more information.
 
 

Course guides and videos - MSc International Relations

IR4A1: International Relations: Core Theories and Debates

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IR4A2: International Relations: Global Applications

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IR4A3: International Relations: Critical Perspectives

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IR4B1: Islam in World Politics

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(Please note that the course has a new code of IR4B1 but it is referred to in the video by the previous code IR461.)

 

IR40A World Orders in Historical International Relations

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Please contact Dr Martin Bayly for any further details on this course.

 

IR411: Foreign Policy Analysis III

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IR412: International Institutions

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IR40B: The EU in the world

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(Please note that the course has a new code of IR40B but it is referred to in the video by the previous code IR416.)

 

IR419: International Relations of the Middle East

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IR434: European Defence and Security

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IR40C: Global Politics of China

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Please contact Dr Sichen Li for any further details on this course.

 

IR448: American Grand Strategy

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IR452: Empire and Conflict in World Politics

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IR464: The Politics of International Human Rights

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Please contact Dr Sinja Graf for any further details on this course.

 

IR466: Genocide

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IR471: Critical International Law 

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Please contact Dr Jens Meierhenrich for any further details on this course.

 

IR473: China and the Global South

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IR475: Race and Resistance in International Relations

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IR476: Gender and Political Violence

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IR477: The Politics of Peace and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

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IR478: Critical War Studies

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IR479: Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies

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IR488: International Politics of Southeast Asia

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Please contact Dr Jürgen Haacke for any further details on this course.

 

IR490: The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations

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IR493: Global Governance of Technological Risk

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Please contact Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi for any further details on this course.

 

IR494: Conflict and Peacebuilding

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IR495: The Politics of Displacement and Refuge

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MY4IR: Research Design for International Relations

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Course guides and videos - MSc International Political Economy

IR429: Economic Diplomacy

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IR453: Global Business in International Relations

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IR454: Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future

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Please contact Dr James Morrison for any further details on this course.

 

IR467: Political Economy of Climate Change

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IR468: The Political Economy of Trade

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IR469: Politics of Money in the World Economy

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IR470: International Political Economy

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Please contact Dr Natalya Naqvi for any further details on this course.

 

IR480: The Politics of Inequality and Development

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IR492: The Political Economy of China's Technological Rise 

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MY4IR: Research Design for International Relations

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