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MSc in Global Politics

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Programme Code: TMGLPO2

Department: Government

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

The MSc includes a core course, GV4K4 The Politics of Globalization (Paper 1) which all students must take. It draws on specialist knowledge from across the LSE's Politics staff to offer a comprehensive introduction to the changing structure of the global order, and the contemporary challenges of global politics. The rest of the MSc allows considerable choice of options whilst seeking to blend a global focus with more detailed thematic or regional knowledge. All students must write a 10,000 word dissertation.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to staff sabbaticals and research leave, the School cannot guarantee that all the courses listed below will be available.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

GV4K4 The Politics of Globalization (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

Paper 2

A

GV499 Dissertation (1.0)

Papers 3 & 4

B

Courses to the value of 2.5 units from the following. Access to the optional courses is not necessarily guaranteed and may require the permission of the course coordinator; please consult the individual course guides for further information on availability:

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5)

DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)

DV418 African Development (0.5)

DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)

DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5)

DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5)

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

DV434 Human Security (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (withdrawn 2025/26)

EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0) # (withdrawn 2025/26)

EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

EU443 European Models of Capitalism (0.5) #

EU457 Culture and Security in Global Politics (0.5)

EU481 The Future: 24-hour Society and its Discontents (0.5)

EU4A2 Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (0.5)

EU4A4 The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (0.5)

GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) #

GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5)

GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (0.5)

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

GI423 Globalisation and Sexuality (0.5) # (withdrawn 2025/26)

GV432 Government and Politics in China (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

GV441 States and Markets (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)

GV444 Democracy and Development in Latin America (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

GV465 War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4D3 Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization (0.5)

GV4E1 Comparative Democratization in a Global Age (0.5)

GV4E2 Capitalism and Democracy (0.5)

GV4E8 Power Sharing and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (0.5)

GV4F2 Popular Politics in the Middle East (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4F9 The Challenges of Governance in sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)

GV4H2 Contemporary India: The World's Largest Democracy in the Early 21st Century (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

GV4J4 Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4J8 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5)

GV4K2 Postcolonial and Comparative Political Theory (0.5)

GV4K7 Conflict and Cooperation: Key Debates (0.5)

GV4K8 Global Public Policy (0.5)

HP412 Global Health Security (0.5)

IR412 International Institutions (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

IR429 Economic Diplomacy (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

IR461 Islam in World Politics (1.0) (withdrawn 2023/24)

IR462 Theory of International Society (0.5) #

IR464 The Politics of International Human Rights (0.5)

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

IR467 Green Political Economy (0.5)

IR471 Critical International Law (0.5)

IR479 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5) #

IR480 The Politics of Inequality and Development (0.5)

IR481 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (0.5)

MG476 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) #

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

A: Paper 2, GV499: Students must pass this course in order to pass the degree.

B: Papers 3 & 4: Or a course not listed approved by the MSc Convenor.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.