MSc Global Public Policy (Online)

Mode of Attendance: Online learning

The MSc in Global Public Policy provides students with a detailed and systematic understanding of a range of explanations for change and continuity in public policymaking in an interdisciplinary, global context. Merging the study of public policy theory, global governance, global advocacy, international relations, political economy and diplomacy to interrogate policy processes beyond the nation-state.

This programme puts at its heart the policy challenges of cross-cutting transnational issues in gender, climate change, resource geopolitics, nuclear proliferation, security and terrorism, sport, trade and economic governance. Students will be trained to critically evaluate and develop solutions for policy issues of global resonance that lay at the intersection of public, private and non-profit sectors.

Through its core modules, the programme covers key concepts and theories that enable critical analysis of given policy space and the complex and fractious processes by which policy is formulated, adopted and implemented at multiple levels of political authority. Students will learn to be cognizant of the impact of relations of power, including those between the global North and South, and to question the assumptions inherent to conventional approaches to policy analysis and management.

Structure

Students will study one core modules and a range of elective modules on offer each session. There are also four research mini-modules.

• 1 x core modules
• 3 x elective modules
• 4 x research mini-modules
• 1 x dissertation

Students are ​required to ​rank three elective modules​ in preferred order​ from the below sample list for each ​study ​session following their core module. ​All modules are subject to availability and this list is not exhaustive​ from session to session​.

Modules

• Global Public Policy (Core)
• Afghanistan: Strategic and Geopolitical Perspectives (Elective)
• America and the World: US Foreign Policy (Elective)
• Digital Diplomacy (Elective)
• Economics, Politics and Society in Africa (Elective)
• Economics, Politics and Society in MENA (Elective)
• Economics, Politics and Society in South Asia (Elective)
• Finance Sustainability and Climate Change (Elective)
• Foundations of International Law (Elective)
• Gender, Conflict and the Middle East (Elective)
• Global Citizenship and Advocacy (Elective)
• Global Challenges: Science Diplomacy (Elective)
• Global Energy and Climate Policy (Elective)
• Global International Organisation: United Nations in the World (Elective)
• Global Media (Elective)
• India's Foreign and Security Policy (Elective)
• International Economics (Elective)
• International Security (Elective)
• Multinational Enterprises in a Globalising World (Elective)
• Muslim Minorities and the State: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Elective)
• Muslim Minorities in a Global Context (Elective)
• Pakistan: Religion, Politics and Security (Elective)
• Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development (Elective)
• Political History, Culture and Diplomacy in Iran (Elective)
• Sports and Diplomacy (Elective)
• Strategic Studies (Elective)
• Trade Diplomacy (Elective)

Important notice

The information on the programme page reflects the intended programme structure against the given academic session.