30 credits
Level 5
First Term
30 credits
Level 5
First Term
30 credits
Level 5
Second Term
This course examines the current security conditions and challenges which face contemporary Latin America. This includes narco-terrorism, debt, populism and neopopulism amongst other things. The region’s different sub regions will all be examined with the international, domestic, cultural and ideological factors for the current security conditions being considered.
60 credits
Level 5
Second Term
60 credits
Level 5
Second Term
60 credits
Level 5
Second Term
The dissertation in IPE enables students to develop in-depth knowledge of a topic of interest. Under close supervision by an expert on the topic selected, students have an opportunity to frame, develop, research and write a substantive and original thesis on a topic of their choosing.
30 credits
Level 5
First Term
30 credits
Level 5
First Term
This course provides an advanced introduction to Latin American Studies. It presents a variety of disciplinary approaches, including those of anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies, and politics and international relations. Through these, it illuminates a wide range of social, political, and cultural issues in the region. The course is divided into two parts: a) an overview of politics and international relations in Latin America, and b) an overview of cultural and social issues in Latin America. This is a core course of the MSc Latin American Studies. It is also available to students of other MSc and MRes programmes.
30 credits
Level 5
First Term
This course explores the possibilities of qualitative research methods for students of politics and international relations. It examines the range of qualitative methods available to researchers, practically and critically, including participant observation, interviewing and focus groups. Having completed the course, students will be competent in the processes of designing, carrying out, analysing and writing up their own small-scale qualitative study.
30 credits
Level 5
First Term
15 credits
Level 5
First Term
History and politics of energy since WW2. Nuclear Power politics – rise, fall and non-rise?. Renewable energy politics, rise and stagnation or triumph? EU politics of liberalisation and interventions such as the EU ETS. Environmental politics and oil; conserving nature and extracting oil Arguments about regulations on oil and gas, planning arguments, arguments about oil spills, protests (eg Brent Spar). The politics of natural gas. The case of ‘fracking’. The course will discuss how economics and politics interact. No prior technical or econometric knowledge is required for this course.
30 credits
Level 5
Second Term
30 credits
Level 5
Second Term
This course is a practical introduction to quantitative research methods in political science. It examines the logic of quantitative social research, including issues of sampling, measurement, and statistical inference. Students will use the SPSS for Windows statistical software package and become familiar with a number of different data sets. Students will develop an understanding of a range of statistical techniques for the manipulation and analysis of political science and international relations data, including multivariate techniques typically used for analysing such data.
30 credits
Level 5
Second Term
This course is an introduction to issues of research design, data collection and effective academic communication in political science research. Its primary objective is to introduce students to the basic rationale, logic and method of original empirical research. It prepares students for how one develops and translates interesting questions and broad theoretical concepts into manageable research projects, and how to communicate the project’s ideas and findings. This requires an understanding of the state of the art of the discipline and the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches.
30 credits
Level 5
Second Term
Topics:
Oil and Security – how oil crises have occurred since 1973, with a focus on the energy demand and supply pressures and the political factors triggering the 1973 and 1979 oil crises. OPEC and IEA. The factors underpinning the oil crisis of 2008 and its relationships to world economic crisis. The role of China in oil politics.
Natural Gas, the EU and Russia. How conceptions of (natural gas) energy security are constructed and implemented in the EU and Russia –Nuclear Power and energy security;– eg Iran .
Climate Security
30 credits
Level 5
Second Term
60 credits
Level 5
Second Term
60 credits
Level 5
Second Term
60 credits
Level 5
Second Term
30 credits
Level 15
First Term
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