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Strand Campus sits along the Thames at London's cultural heart. Alongside world-class teaching spaces, students enjoy access to the pedestrianised Strand Quad, with Somerset House and iconic landmarks just steps away.
Overview
The International Relations MA provides you with an advanced and comprehensive understanding of the forces shaping the world and how actors on the world stage – states, international organisations, transnational networks – see and address global challenges. The movement of capital, goods, and people, new media and information technologies, the rise of identity politics, populism, regional integration, climate change, and different forms of warfare all have a transformative impact on states and societies, their relations and on global order. This degree programme enables you to study these dynamics in depth and from different angles and perspectives. You will be taught by some of the world's leading experts in the academic field of International Relations, who will guide you to analyse world politics from different angles and develop your skills for undertaking a research project on a topic of your choice.
The compulsory module addresses key theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches and theoretical debates in the field of International Relations. This degree programme is based in the Department of War Studies, one of the few academic departments in the world to focus on the complexities of conflict and security from different disciplinary perspectives. It is home to some of the world's leading experts in the academic field of International Relations and our students benefit from world class research-led teaching cross thematic and regional specialisms. Learning takes place through a variety of teaching methods that may include lectures, seminars, workshops, London walks, museum visits, simulations, and class presentations.
Key benefits
- Discover the latest research in the discipline of International Relations, expert assessments of contemporary world events, and develop your own research skills for in-depth and critical analysis.
- Strengthen transferable skills such as effective communication, organising and evaluating information, using appropriate technologies for retrieving and presenting knowledge; working in groups and collaborating with others to achieve common goals; as well as skills for working independently, such as self-organisation, decision-making, effective time management and taking personal responsibility.
- You will be based in a multidisciplinary department devoted to the study of all aspects of conflict, security and international politics. Engage with and learn from some of the very best academics in the field.
- The Department offers a varied list of interdisciplinary optional modules (approx. 35-45) that are open to students on all residential MA programmes. This provides an opportunity to focus or broaden your MA studies as you wish. (Please note that due to the large number of optional modules we offer, the spaces on any particular module are limited). See ‘Teaching & Modules’ tab for more information.
- Be part of a vibrant international and diverse student body from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds.
- A chance to network and connect with our visiting fellows, who may include visiting academics government ministers, diplomats and other experts who are part of our War Studies community and who give public lectures and seminars.
- An opportunity to take advantage of our central London location, an extensive network of links with other departments, think-tanks, organisations, policymaking bodies and institutions in the UK and abroad.
- Graduates have gone on to careers in a variety of fields across public and private sectors, including government and security services, journalism, non-governmental organisations, the EU, NATO, the UN (and its many agencies), academia, think tanks, global charities, and multi-national corporations.
Since starting this program, I have been very pleased with the welcoming and supportive community that I have found at King’s College London. In addition to being located in one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world, King’s is home to an incredible community of passionate, encouraging and kind individuals who are supportive of peoples’ endeavours to be involved with the greater global community.
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