MSc in International Affairs (LSE and Peking University)
Programme Code: TMINAF
Department: International History
For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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Paper 1 |
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The following compulsory course: HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) # |
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Paper 2 |
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Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: |
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IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR412 International Institutions (1.0) |
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IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5) |
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IR466 Genocide (0.5) |
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IR467 Green Political Economy (0.5) |
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IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5) |
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IR471 Critical International Law (0.5) |
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IR479 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5) # |
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IR480 The Politics of Inequality and Development (0.5) |
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IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5) |
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IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5) |
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IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (0.5) |
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Paper 3 |
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Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the list below, not already taken under Paper 2: |
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HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0) |
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HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0) |
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HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0) |
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HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0) |
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HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0) |
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HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) # |
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HY463 The Roots, Origins and Dynamics of the Cold War, 1917-1962 (1.0) |
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HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0) |
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HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0) |
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HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China & India, 1550-1840 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0) |
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HY486 The Anti-Slave-Trade Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0) |
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HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5) |
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HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5) |
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HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5) |
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HY4B1 The Vietnam Wars, 1930-75: Regional and International Perspectives (1.0) |
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HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY4B3A Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) |
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HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) |
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HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5) |
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HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0) |
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HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0) |
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HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater' War c. 1912-23 (1.0) |
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HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0) |
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HY4C3 Spaces of Democracy in 20th Century Germany (1.0) |
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IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR412 International Institutions (1.0) |
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IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5) |
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IR466 Genocide (0.5) |
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IR467 Green Political Economy (0.5) |
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IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5) |
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IR471 Critical International Law (0.5) |
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IR479 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5) # |
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IR480 The Politics of Inequality and Development (0.5) |
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IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5) |
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IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5) |
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IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (0.5) |
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Paper 4 |
HY498 Dissertation: LSE-PKU Double Degree MSc in International Affairs; MSc Theory and History of International Relations (1.0) |
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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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