MSc in History of International Relations

Programme Code: TMHYIRS

Full-year programme. Students take courses to the value of three full units (only one of which can be an outside option i.e. a course not listed below) and a dissertation:

Paper

Course number and title

1, 2, 3

Courses to the value of three full units from the following list:

 

HY400

Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, 1914-2003

HY411

European Integration in the Twentieth Century

HY422

Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-1989

HY424

The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe (n/a 15/16)  

 

HY429

Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War

HY432

From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999

HY434

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990

HY435

Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS

HY436

Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

HY438

Western Intellectuals and the Challenge of Totalitarianism (withdrawn 15/16)

HY439

War Cultures, 1890-1945 (n/a 15/16)

HY440

The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy

HY441

Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago (n/a 15/16)

HY444

The Cold War in Latin America (n/a 15/16)

HY448

Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War

HY460

Ideologies and Political Thought in Germany in the Era of Extremes (1914-1990)

HY461

East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945  

HY463

The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962

HY465

The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict

HY469

Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H) (n/a 15/16) 

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H) (n/a 15/16)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H) (n/a 15/16) 

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

EU476

Turkey and Europe (H)

IR439

Diplomacy (H)

 

Or a HY course from another MSc programme run by the Department of International History (subject to approval by the programme director)
Or a related course from another department (outside option) (subject to approval by the programme director)

4

HY499

Dissertation

Notes

Students can also take HY449 Long-term History: The Patterns of the Past and the Shape of Things to Come, a non-assessed course taken in addition to the required four full-units as detailed above.