Global Security [MSc]

You will take four core and selection of optional courses. You will also complete a dissertation as a piece of independent research.In addition to the general degree programme, you have the opportunity to study one of three specialised pathways

• Comparative approaches to warfare and violent conflict
• International security and global politics
• Qualitative research methods OR Social sciences statistics
• Thematic issues in global security.

You will supplement the core elements of the programme with a range of optional courses chosen from a broad list of optional courses.

Provides you with the opportunity to examine how cyber issues and information communications technologies challenge the way states and citizens alike attempt to use and constrain information in a range of societies for security purposes. Specialised courses within this pathway include

• Human-centred security
• Information systems and databases
• Systems and networks.

Provides you with the opportunity to examine global security from a critical perspective, reflecting on social and cultural aspects and constructions of 'security'. Important to this pathway will be an interrogation of the relationship between security, vulnerability and the ethics of care. Specialised courses within this pathway include:

• Critical perspectives on securities and vulnerabilities
• A range of related optional courses.

Provides youwith the opportunity to examine shifts in Western strategic thought in both a historical and contemporary setting. Particular attention will be given to how strategy and defence is currently developing within a new interdependent global context. Specialised courses within this pathway include

• Comparative approaches to warfare and violent conflict
• The American way of war: from Revolution to the War on Terror
• A range of related optional courses.