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Master of Arts (Honours) International Relations and Middle East Studies


MA International Relations (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
Introduction to International Relations 20 AND
Foreign Policy Analysis and International Security 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA Middle East Studies (Joint): First year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: ME1003, MO1007 - MO1008 AND
The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Between 0 and 80 credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA International Relations (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* Theoretical Approaches to International Relations 20 AND
* Issues in International Relations 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked *
MA Middle East Studies (Joint): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20 AND
( ~ History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
~ Mediaeval Europe (1000-1400) 20 OR
~ Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked *
  • pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked ~

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA International Relations (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999 AND
International Political Economy 30
International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
Ethics and World Politics 30
IR3013 Modern Ideologies 30
Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3027 American New World Orders of the Twentieth Century 30
IR3028 Politics of China 30
The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3034 The Political Theory of War and Peace 30
IR3035 Peace Processes and Violence 30
IR3036 Public International Law and International Legal Theory 30
IR3037 Central Asian Studies 30
IR3038 Conflict Management, Settlement and Resolution 30
IR3039 International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
IR3043 Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
IR3044 Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR3047 Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
International History and International Relations 30
State, Power, Crime 30
International Relations Theory 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
International Relations and the Internet 30
IR3056 Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
IR3059 Anglo-American Relations Since 1939: The Special Relationship? 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3061 International Political Theology: Christian Realism and Beyond 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
IR3063 Organised Crime and Corruption 30
Critical Terrorism Studies 30
Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
Christianity and World Politics 30
Armed Conflict in Postcolonial Africa 30
Realism in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights 30
IR3101 Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
Asian Security 30
Gender and Generation 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: IR4100 - IR4999 (excluding IR4794 - IR4795)
Communication in International Relations 15
IR4501 International Politics of Nuclear Weapons 30
IR4502 Conflict Management, Settlement and Resolution 30
IR4504 The Language of Politics 30
IR4506 Political Economy of the Modern Middle East 30
IR4508 Religion and World Politics 30
IR4509 World Order in the History of Political Thought 30
IR4512 Britain and the World 30
IR4514 Global Public Policy 30
The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4518 Ethics and the Use of Force 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4521 Representations of International Relations 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
IR4523 The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4525 Ethno-National Conflict in the Post-Communist Space 30
IR4526 Terrorism, Radicalism and Extremism 30
IR4527 International Relations of the European Union 30
IR4528 Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR4529 Force in the Modern World 30
Genocide 30
IR4531 The Return of Great Power Politics 30
IR4532 The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4534 Terrorist Finance 30
Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4536 Warmongers and Peacemakers: Religious Actors and Conflict 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
IR4539 International Law and International Legal Theory 30
The Changing Character of War 30
IR4541 Dealing in Darkness: An Anatomy of Realism in International Relations 30
Gender and Terrorism 30
Activism and Resistance 30
IR4544 Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
IR4547 Shadows in the Global Political Economy 30
Force and Statecraft 30
IR4549 Theory, Critique and Ideology in International Relations 30
IR4550 Art and War 30
IR4551 Cosmopolitanism and Global Politics 30
The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4558 Non-Western International Relations 30
Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
Comparative regionalism 30
The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
International Relations of the Middle East 30
IR4603 Central Asia in International Politics 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4605 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to up to thirty 4000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA Middle East Studies (Joint): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: Various Groupings of AH, IR, ME and MO Modules
A Survey of Islamic Art 30
Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The Mediaeval Castle 30
The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3609 The Mongols and the West 30
ME3610 The Ottoman Empire from Mediaeval Anatolia to S³leyman the Magnificent 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3614 The Eastern Roman World in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Mediaeval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3080 The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
French Algeria, 1830 - 1962 30
Modern Iran 1834-1941: Nationalism, Reform and Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
A Survey of Islamic Art 30
Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to level 3000 and 4000 level IR modules requires permission from the Honours Advisers in Middle East Studies and International Relations. Students will normally be expected to have met the requirements for Honours entry to the School of International Relations.

MA International Relations (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4000 - IR4999 AND
Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
Communication in International Relations 15
IR4501 International Politics of Nuclear Weapons 30
IR4502 Conflict Management, Settlement and Resolution 30
IR4504 The Language of Politics 30
IR4506 Political Economy of the Modern Middle East 30
IR4508 Religion and World Politics 30
IR4509 World Order in the History of Political Thought 30
IR4512 Britain and the World 30
IR4514 Global Public Policy 30
The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4518 Ethics and the Use of Force 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4521 Representations of International Relations 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
IR4523 The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4525 Ethno-National Conflict in the Post-Communist Space 30
IR4526 Terrorism, Radicalism and Extremism 30
IR4527 International Relations of the European Union 30
IR4528 Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR4529 Force in the Modern World 30
Genocide 30
IR4531 The Return of Great Power Politics 30
IR4532 The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4534 Terrorist Finance 30
Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4536 Warmongers and Peacemakers: Religious Actors and Conflict 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
IR4539 International Law and International Legal Theory 30
The Changing Character of War 30
IR4541 Dealing in Darkness: An Anatomy of Realism in International Relations 30
Gender and Terrorism 30
Activism and Resistance 30
IR4544 Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
IR4547 Shadows in the Global Political Economy 30
Force and Statecraft 30
IR4549 Theory, Critique and Ideology in International Relations 30
IR4550 Art and War 30
IR4551 Cosmopolitanism and Global Politics 30
The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4558 Non-Western International Relations 30
Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
Comparative regionalism 30
The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
International Relations of the Middle East 30
IR4603 Central Asia in International Politics 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4605 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
IR4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
International Political Economy 30
International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
Ethics and World Politics 30
IR3013 Modern Ideologies 30
Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3027 American New World Orders of the Twentieth Century 30
IR3028 Politics of China 30
The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3034 The Political Theory of War and Peace 30
IR3035 Peace Processes and Violence 30
IR3036 Public International Law and International Legal Theory 30
IR3037 Central Asian Studies 30
IR3038 Conflict Management, Settlement and Resolution 30
IR3039 International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
IR3043 Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
IR3044 Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR3047 Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
International History and International Relations 30
State, Power, Crime 30
International Relations Theory 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
International Relations and the Internet 30
IR3056 Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
IR3059 Anglo-American Relations Since 1939: The Special Relationship? 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3061 International Political Theology: Christian Realism and Beyond 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
IR3063 Organised Crime and Corruption 30
Critical Terrorism Studies 30
Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
Christianity and World Politics 30
Armed Conflict in Postcolonial Africa 30
Realism in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights 30
IR3101 Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
Asian Security 30
Gender and Generation 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to up to thirty 3000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA Middle East Studies (Joint): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: Various Groupings of AH, IR, ME and MO Modules AND
A Survey of Islamic Art 30
Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The Mediaeval Castle 30
The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3609 The Mongols and the West 30
ME3610 The Ottoman Empire from Mediaeval Anatolia to S³leyman the Magnificent 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3614 The Eastern Roman World in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Mediaeval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
MO3080 The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
French Algeria, 1830 - 1962 30
Modern Iran 1834-1941: Nationalism, Reform and Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
A Survey of Islamic Art 30
Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4099, IR4600 - IR4650, HI4997 - HI4999, HI4794 AND
Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
International Relations of the Middle East 30
IR4603 Central Asia in International Politics 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4605 The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
Recording the Past 30
Honours Project in History 30
Honours Dissertation in History 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002 and HI4101 ) OR
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Communication in History 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4850 - ME4895, MO4850 - MO4895 AND
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4854 Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople (Istanbul) 60
Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
MO4850 Britain and Iran in the Modern Era 60
MO4852 Experiencing the Past in the Middle East 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101.

Access to level 3000 and 4000 level IR modules requires permission from the Honours Advisers in Middle East Studies and International Relations. Students will normally be expected to have met the requirements for Honours entry to the School of International Relations.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).