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MSc in International Affairs (LSE and Peking University)

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Programme Code: TMINAF

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2023/24

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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

Two-year programme. Students take the first year at Peking University, and the second year at LSE as follows.

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

The following compulsory course:

HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) #

Paper 2

A

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

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)

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

IR462 Theory of International Society (0.5) #

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

IR467 Green Political Economy (0.5)

IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5)

IR469 Politics of Money in the World 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)

IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)

IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5)

IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (0.5)

Paper 3

B

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the list below, not already taken under Paper 2:

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #

HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0)

HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)

HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0)

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0)

HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0)

HY446 Geo-Interventions and the Genealogy of the Anthropocene: The Transformation of Nature, Space, and Territory, 19th-21st centuries (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) #

HY463 The Roots, Origins and Dynamics of the Cold War, 1917-1962 (1.0)

HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0)

HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China & India, 1550-1840 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0)

HY486 The Anti-Slave-Trade Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0)

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5)

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5)

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

HY4B1 The Vietnam Wars, 1930-75: Regional and International Perspectives (1.0)

HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

HY4B3 Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5)

HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0)

HY4B8 On German Memory Politics: From the Cold War to New Global Challenges (1.0) (withdrawn 2024/25)

HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0)

HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater' War c. 1912-23 (1.0)

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

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)

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

IR462 Theory of International Society (0.5) #

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

IR467 Green Political Economy (0.5)

IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5)

IR469 Politics of Money in the World 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)

IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)

IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5)

IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (0.5)

Paper 4

HY498 Dissertation: LSE-PKU Double Degree MSc in International Affairs; MSc Theory and History of International Relations (1.0)

Footnotes

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

A: Paper 2, IR469: With permission of the course teacher.

B: Paper 3, IR469: With permission of the course teacher.

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