MSc Global Politics MSc Global Politics (Global Civil Society)

About the MSc programmes

This programme is based in the Department of Government, but the teaching is interdisciplinary and carried out by Government, the International Relations Department, the Department of International Development and the European Institute. It brings together many of the unique resources of these departments into a leading, interdisciplinary programme on globalisation, global governance and global politics. The programme brings together the expertise of LSE staff at the cutting edge of debates about globalisation and global politics and is a good preparation for further research work or for a career in education, the public services or the private sector at national, international or global levels.

We will consider applicants with a 2:1 or above in any discipline, with a considered interest in the area covered by the MSc.

Students can also apply for the Global Civil Society stream of the MSc Global Politics, which has a second compulsory course focusing on knowledge that can enhance the strategic capacity of global civil society organisations. The Global Civil Society stream offers a good preparation for careers in non governmental organisations at national or global levels.

Compulsory courses

• From Empire to Globalisation
• Global Civil Society* (required for students on the Global Civil Society stream only)
• 10,000 word dissertation

Options

(* half unit)

Choose courses from the following list (a total of two and a half units for M1UG, one and a half units for M1UY):

• Environmental Problems and Development Interventions*
• Global Environmental Governance*
• African Development*
• Complex Emergencies*
• Emerging Health Threats and Development*
• Global Political Economy of Development I*
• Global Political Economy of Development II*
• Ethnic Diversity and International Society* 
• Partisanship in Europe* 
• Government and Politics in China* 
• Globalisation and Democracy* 
• Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Totalitarianism*
• Globalisation, Gender and Development
• Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction*
• Democratisation and its Discontents in Southeast Asia*
• European Integration from a Global Perspective* 
• Local Power in an Era of Globalisation, Democratisation and Decentralisation*
• Global Civil Society* 
• Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India*
• Human Security*
• Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies* 
• Postcolonial Perspectives in International Relations*
• Conflict and Peace Studies
• Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia
• Latin American Development in the Twentieth Century: From Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism
• The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries 
• European Models of Capitalism*
• Democracy in East and South Asia* 
• National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation*
• States and Markets*
• The State and Political Institutions in Latin America*
• Democracy and Development in Latin America* 
• Nationalism 
• War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination*
• The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution*
• International Political Economy of the Environment
• The EU in the World
• European Society and Politics Beyond the Nation State*
• The International Relations of the Middle East 
• Economic Diplomacy
• Comparative Political Economy
• Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan
• World Poverty and Human Rights*
• Managing Globalisation*
• Popular Politics in the Middle East*
• Managing Humanitarianism*
• Institutions in the Global Economy*
• Comparative Democratisation in a Global Age* 
• Genocide*

Please note that not every course is necessarily available each year, and some may only be available with permission of the course tutor. See lse.ac.uk/courseCapping|