Paper 1

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

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

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #

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

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

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

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)

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

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 2026/27)

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

HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0)

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

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America (1.0)

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

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

HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5)

HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)

HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0)

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

HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0)

HY4C4 Crises and Reforms in Modern History (1.0)

HY4C5 Britain's Secret State: Intelligence and Power since 1900 (1.0)

HY4C6 Women of the World Unite: Transnational Feminisms and Decolonisation in the long Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY4C7 Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered (1.0)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

IR40B The EU in the World (0.5) #

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0)

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

IR462 Theory of International Society (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

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 Strategic Aspects of International Relations III (0.5)

IR494 Conflict and Peacebuilding (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

IR469 requires permission of the course teacher

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the lists below, not already taken under Papers 1 and 2:

Paper 1 options list

Paper 2 options list

Paper 4

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