MA Gender, Sexuality in Global Politics

This is the dissertation for the online programme MSc International Development, MSc Humanitarian Action and any other online programmes launched by the department.

This is the dissertation for the online programme MSc International Development, MSc Humanitarian Action and any other online programmes launched by the department.

This is the dissertation for the online programme MSc International Development, MSc Humanitarian Action and any other online programmes launched by the department.

This is the dissertation for the online programme MSc International Development, MSc Humanitarian Action and any other online programmes launched by the department.

This module provides an overview of the major contemporary issues in gender and social inequality, which cut across all areas of policy and development practice in both the developed and developing world. The module examines definitions, concepts and theories of sex, gender and identity; it examines the historical emergence and evolution of various types of feminism; and it examines the ways in which gender inequality can be addressed - and sustainable development promoted - through policy and in practice.

This module is at the intersection between feminist/queer and political analysis. It prioritizes critical feminist approaches to knowledge production and feminist and queer interventions in the study of global political and socio-economic processes.

This module offers insight into key issues in the study of gender and conflict in the Middle East. It provides a focus for students interested in women’s studies, feminism, sexuality and gender, while also offering a gendered approach to the study of conflict in the Middle East.

This module provides a multidisciplinary understanding of climate change processes and their direct and indirect interactions with international development. It introduces critical analysis of climate change issues and policy responses. It identified the contribution and sensitivity of different economic sectors to climate change, mitigation and adaptation, and the implications for livelihoods and policy. The module provides a foundational, multidisciplinary understanding of core climate change processes and their interactions with development, poverty and poverty reduction. It is global in scope while focusing on development trajectories and outcomes in the ‘Global South’. 

Muslim Minorities in a Global Context (Online)

Global Diplomacy: Global Citizenship and Advocacy.

This course offers students a broad understanding of a range of issues that the study of global media raise in regard to the changing nature of diplomacy. The course starts by situating the rise of global media within processes of globalization.

This module addresses a crucial element of contemporary Diplomacy and international affairs, the role of digital technologies in practices, processes and language of diplomacy. As such, it will respond to rapidly changing environments for diplomacy and international relations. It will ask whether, how and in which days does the use of digital technologies in public diplomacy, soft power, propaganda, influence and persuasion and link these questions to trends and changes in policies and decision making. In addition, it will adopt a holistic view of processes and practices, considering how both state and non-state actors are using the expanding digital spaces and platforms and what these mean for conventional understanding of diplomacy.

This module examines responses to conflict-related emergencies. At its core is an understanding of the power relations, systems and processes that generate violence, and responses to it. The module enables students to build up a critical understanding of the ideological underpinnings, constraints and politics of humanitarian action, alongside an empirical grounding of humanitarian providers and relationships between them. Students develop the skills to analyse humanitarian action and inform effective policymaking and implementation in humanitarian contexts.

This module equips students with a thorough theoretical understanding of development studies, drawing on the key disciplines of sociology and political economy. The module examines the history of thought on development studies, identifying and critiquing the intellectual journey, trends, and policies of orthodox development thinking and practice

The Middle East has long been an area of interstate conflict and an important area for proxy conflict of global great powers as well as regional actors. This module will investigate the Diplomacy and Power politics of key regional and Global actors in the Middle East region and how they leverage these to achieve their national objectives. This module will also engage with key international organisations such as the UN and Arab League. It will focus on the region from the End of the Cold War to the present day.