MSc International Political Theory

Comments about MSc International Political Theory - At the institution - Edinburgh - Scotland

• Objectives
  The degree aims to equip students with intellectual skills to analyse contemporary international affairs from a theoretically informed perspective with a particular focus on their ethical dimensions. Students will: * identify and analyse the normative issuesarising in the sphere of global social, economic, political and security relations; * understand how to apply, and when to amend, existing resources of political theory to political issues beyond the horizon of the nation-state; * evaluate policy in international affairs from the standpoint of normative principle; * examine normative standards exemplified by existing international institutions; * formulate research questions and plan, execute and present their findings.
• Academic title
  MSc International Political Theory
• Course description
  Learning Outcomes
  
  Students who follow this programme will be able to:
  
      * develop knowledge of the main concepts of political theory, as applied in international politics;
      * understand how concepts of justice, rights and democracy apply in international and global contexts;
      * assess critically how existing transnational institutions meet, or fail to meet, appropriate normative standards;
      * apply analytical, critical and philosophical methods to the study of empirical problems in the field of international politics;
      * discuss constructively, and to propose, appropriate policy responses to specific problems in the international sphere.
  
  How You Will Be Taught
  
  Taught courses normally combine lectures and seminar discussions and will be assessed by essays. Work on the 15,000-word dissertation involves independent supervised research