MA International Relations and Security With Professional Placement

Birmingham City University

The International Relations and Security course explores issues of power, governance, security, decision-making, conflict, and cooperation across the globe. Students develop knowledge and high-level skills that equip them for success in their careers.

The course provides knowledge and critical understanding of communities and states facing challenges such as migration, terrorism, state violence, climate change and social inequalities. The study of International Relations encompasses relations between human beings and their socio-political and ecological environments at local, national and global levels. This course explores security, power relations, globalisation and the ways states interact, whether through cooperation or through conflict.