This is an archived handbook for a previous year. The current undergraduate and postgraduate handbooks can be viewed using the links above.
Undergraduate Handbook 2025-2026 (archived)
Government and International Affairs
Programmes
- LL12: BA Economics and Politics
- LL02: BA Economics and Politics with Placement Year
- LL01: BA Economics and Politics with Study Abroad
- L250: BA International Relations
- L252: BA International Relations with Placement Year
- L251: BA International Relations with Year Abroad
- LV25: BA Philosophy and Politics
- L2V5: BA Philosophy and Politics (with Year Abroad)
- L2V6: BA Philosophy and Politics with Placement Year
- VL52: BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- VLL6: BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics with Placement Year
- VLLA: BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics with Study Abroad
- L200: BA Politics
- L202: BA Politics (Year Abroad)
- L253: BA Politics and International Relations
- L254: BA Politics and International Relations with Placement Year
- L255: BA Politics and International Relations with Year Abroad
- L203: BA Politics with Placement Year
Modules
- SGIA1071: International Security, Interdependence and Organisation
- SGIA1191: Democratic Political Systems
- SGIA1201: Researching Politics and International Relations
- SGIA1211: Introduction to Comparative Politics
- SGIA1221: Introduction to International Relations
- SGIA1231: Introduction to Political Theory
- SGIA1241: Perspectives of Political Economy
- SGIA2131: INTERNATIONAL THEORY
- SGIA2161: Politics and International Relations of East Asia
- SGIA2171: FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- SGIA2261: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATONS
- SGIA2281: SOVEREIGNTY, STATE AND EMPIRE
- SGIA2311: MIDDLE EAST IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (not available in 2025)
- SGIA2321: DEBATES IN POLITICAL THEORY
- SGIA2341: Research Project
- SGIA2351: CLASS, NATION AND PARTY IN BRITISH POLITICS
- SGIA2361: Analytical Politics
- SGIA2371: Challenges and Conflict in European Politics (not available in 2025)
- SGIA2381: Democracy, Conflict and American Politics
- SGIA2391: Middle East and the International System
- SGIA2401: Capitalism: History and Theory
- SGIA2411: Gender and Politics
- SGIA3142: DISSERTATION IN POLITICS
- SGIA3171: BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT SINCE 1850 (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3271: Muslims and Politics in the Modern World (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3291: Theories of Liberty
- SGIA3311: THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3381: China in Global Political Economy
- SGIA3421: ISRAEL: POLITICS AND SOCIETY (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3441: ELECTIONS AND BRITISH POLITICS (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3461: Parties, MPs and Parliamentary Politics in Britain (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3511: Political Psychology in International Relations (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3521: SPECIAL TOPIC ON PACIFIC ASIA (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3531: Democratic Practice in the United States: Campaigns, Elections and Voter Behaviour
- SGIA3541: ADVANCED TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3561: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- SGIA3571: DEMOCRACY AND DISCONTENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
- SGIA3591: Politics Into Schools (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3601: Global China: Domestic Transformations and, International Rise. (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3611: Women, Gender and Politics in the US and UK (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3621: Youth and Youth Policy in the Global Political Economy (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3631: Social Justice and Marginalised Groups (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3641: The Theory and Ethics of Political Violence. (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3671: The Politics of Inequality
- SGIA3681: Poverty or Prosperity? The Political Economy of Development (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3711: Climate, Nature and the Global Economy
- SGIA3721: Digital Democracy (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3731: Global Politics in the Anthropocene: Securing the Environment (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3741: Decolonizing International Society
- SGIA3751: Crises, Governance, and Struggle: Finance and the World Economy (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3761: Marx and Marxism
- SGIA3771: Intelligence, The State and International Security (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3781: Diasporas and Global Politics
- SGIA3801: Advanced Topics in International Political Theory: The International Politics of the Everyday
- SGIA3811: The Culture Wars: Past, Present, Future
- SGIA3821: Advanced Readings in Political Economy
- SGIA3831: Are Voters Really Rational? The Political Economy of Political Behaviour and Its Discontents
- SGIA3841: Can Voters Make Democracy Work? (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3851: Environmental Politics
- SGIA3861: Special Topic on the American Presidential Election (not available in 2025)
- SGIA3871: The Politics of Deglobalisation in the Europe-China-US triangle: theory and policy practice. (not available in 2025)