BA (Hons) Politics (with a year in industry)

Option modules

Year 2

Group A

• Democracy and Struggles for Social Justice 
• History of Political Thought 
• State, Economy and Society 
• Empire, War and Law 
• The Politics of Gender 

Group B

• Politics in the United Kingdom 
• The European Union: Politics and Policies 
• Politics of Development 
• The Rising Powers 

Group C

• War and Peace 
• The United States and Global Politics After the Cold War 
• Critical Global Security Studies 
• Global Political Economy 

Year 4

• Governing the Global Economy 
• Green Politics
• Karl Marx 
• Border Politics: Contemporary Perspectives on Sovereignty, Mobility & Citizenship 
• The Labour Party and Britain’s Struggle for Socialism 
• Ethnicity and Conflict 
• ‘We the people’: Ideas of Democratic Representation from Rousseau to Occupy 
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism 
• Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons 
• Africa and International Politics 
• Knowledge and Democracy 
• Contemporary Politics of South Asia  
• Development Paradigms 
• From War to Peace: Statebuilding and Political Transition in South East Asia
• British Foreign Policy after the Cold War 
• Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict 
• Governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power 
• Political Economy of New Europe 
• The Idea of Liberty 
• The European Far Right 
• Politics and the Street 
• Regionalism in World Politics 
• Global Sustainability and Energy Policy 
• The Politics of (Post) Colonialism 
• International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
• Politics of Peace after Civil War 
• Democracy and Emergency
• Ethics and International Politics
• Political Psychology and Public Opinion 
• International Crisis Diplomacy