B.A. International Politics and the Non Western World

This degree scheme turns the traditional story of international relations on its head, to ask: What does international politics look like when we view it from beyond the West? We start our thinking about global politics with our intellectual feet deliberately planted outside the powerful, prosperous and dominant West in order to bring a fresh, questioning attitude to the study of world politics. The degree scheme challenges the Eurocentric grand narratives of international politics by studying the interconnectedness of the West and the non-Western world(s), engaging with marginalized issues and voices. In particular, you are introduced to not only a critique of state-centric and Eurocentric IR and its implications for the non-Western world, but will also study key issues and themes such as colonialism, culture, development, gender, identity, inequality, race, religion, resistance and social movements.