This module aims to provide students with an applied understanding of prominent ideas and debates within current comparative world politics and international relations. It focuses on the latest dilemmas confronting policymakers, experts and activists, including cooperation and conflict, technological change, social forces and movements, institutions, policies and practices. Students will develop a variety of skills, particularly with regard to case studies and comparative analysis, and offers the necessary grounding for further study in politics, international relations and political economy.
Debates in World Politics 1 will explore the ability of states to make decisions in an increasingly globalised world, and will consider contemporary challenges to governance.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Introduce students to a critical appreciation of the dilemmas facing policymakers in navigating change/changing contexts in current world politics
Identify specific case studies to investigate dynamics of global politics on different levels of decision-making
Apply key concepts and methods of comparative politics to analyse challenges in world politics and critically engage with scholarly literature and primary sources
Assessment
37476-01 : 2,000 Word Assessment : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment Critical Literature Review (2,000 words) (100%)
