MSc in History of International Relations

Programme Code: TMHYIRS

Department: International History

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

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:

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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  

 

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 (n/a 16/17)

HY435

Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (n/a 16/17)

HY436

Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

HY439

War Cultures, 1890-1945

HY440

The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy (n/a 16/17)

HY441

Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago (n/a 16/17)

HY444

The Cold War in Latin America

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

HY459

The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950

HY460

Ideologies and Political Thought in Germany in the Era of Extremes (1914-1990) (withdrawn 16/17)

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

HY471

European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948

HY472

China and the External World, 1711-1839

EH451

Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H)

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

EU476

Turkey and Europe (H)

IR439

Diplomacy (H) (n/a 16/17)

 

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