This is an archived handbook for a previous year. The current undergraduate and postgraduate handbooks can be viewed using the links above.
Postgraduate Handbook 2025-2026 (archived)
Government and International Affairs
Programmes
- T6K109: MSc Arab World Studies (Last intake of students October 2024)
- L2K909: MSc Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
- L2K609: MSc Defence, Development and Diplomacy
- L2T207: MA International Relations
- M9L007: MA International Relations: East Asia (Final intake in 2025-26)
- M1K507: MA International Relations: Europe (Suspended for 2025/26 academic year. No further intakes.)
- L2K407: MA Politics and International Relations (Political Theory)
- M9K907: MA Politics and International Relations of East Asia (First intake in 2026-27)
- M9K707: MA Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
- L2KB09: MSc Public Policy
Modules
- SGIA40160: DISSERTATION (ARAB WORLD STUDIES WITH ARABIC)
- SGIA40560: Dissertation
- SGIA40D15: Assessing Martial Power
- SGIA40F15: Causal Inference
- SGIA40G15: Full Stack Research Design
- SGIA40H30: Defence Innovation and Entrepreneurship (not available in 2025)
- SGIA40I15: Capstone Project in Public Policy
- SGIA40J60: Dissertation in Public Policy
- SGIA40K15: Natural Language Processing for Public Policy
- SGIA40L30: Public Policy
- SGIA40M15: Communicating Quantitative Evidence: Visualizations, Narratives and Tables (not available in 2025)
- SGIA40P15: Surveys, Survey Experiments and Analysis (not available in 2025)
- SGIA40Q15: Advanced Topics in Public Policy
- SGIA40R15: The Non-Arab States of the Middle East
- SGIA40S15: RESEARCHING THE GLOBAL SOUTH
- SGIA40T15: Conflict and Climate Crisis
- SGIA40U30: Global Political Economy
- SGIA40V15: Public Policy Reform
- SGIA40W30: Researching Political Theory
- SGIA40Y15: The Making of a Policy Maker
- SGIA40Z15: Europe-China Relations in a Changing World
- SGIA41115: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST (not available in 2025)
- SGIA42415: Capstone Exercise: Humanitarian Intervention Simulation
- SGIA42515: Defence, Development and Diplomacy in Conflict: Evolving Actors, Factors and Paradigms
- SGIA42615: Conflict Prevention and Sustainable Peace
- SGIA42715: International Law and Conflict Intervention
- SGIA42815: Peace Processes and Everyday Political Negotiati
- SGIA42915: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and State-Building
- SGIA43015: Consolidating Peace after Violence
- SGIA43215: Field Trip
- SGIA43315: RELIGION, CULTURE AND CONFLICT (not available in 2025)
- SGIA43415: International Negotiation (not available in 2025)
- SGIA43515: Conflict Mediation (not available in 2025)
- SGIA43715: Security Management in Violent Environments (not available in 2025)
- SGIA43815: URBAN VIOLENCE - URBAN PEACEBUILDING (not available in 2025)
- SGIA45615: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST (not available in 2025)
- SGIA47315: Policing Post-Conflict Cities (not available in 2025)
- SGIA47415: Conflict Analysis (not available in 2025)
- SGIA47515: Participatory Approaches to Peace and Development (not available in 2025)
- SGIA47815: Defence Diplomacy, Military Engagement, and Security Force Assistance (not available in 2025)
- SGIA47960: DISSERTATION (RESEARCH METHODS) (not available in 2025)
- SGIA48315: Transitory Lives - Migration, Research and Advocacy
- SGIA48415: Gender in the UN Global Security Agenda
- SGIA48515: War and death: human remains and the body politics of violence
- SGIA48615: Introduction to the Law and Practice of International Criminal Justice (not available in 2025)
- SGIA48715: Capturing and Counting Peace and Conflict (not available in 2025)
- SGIA48815: Contemporary Challenges in United Nations Peacekeeping
- SGIA49030: The Politics of Global Europe
- SGIA49230: Global Political Theory (not available in 2025)
- SGIA49330: Ideologies and Political Thought
- SGIA49430: International Organisations
- SGIA49530: International Politics of the Middle East
- SGIA49630: International Relations Theory
- SGIA49730: The Politics of East Asia
- SGIA49830: Contemporary Political Philosophy
- SGIA49860: Dissertation
- SGIA49915: Quantitative Methods and Analysis