MSc Asian Politics
Master
In City of London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
City of london
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Start date
Different dates available
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
Containing 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is the setting for many of the most important political issues in the world today. These issues include the rise of China and India, economic dynamism of the Asian-Pacific area, regional integration (ASEAN, SAARC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization), security hotspots (Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Straits, India-Pakistan, the ‘global war on terror’), democratic transition and consolidation, the survival of non-democratic regimes, and identity conflicts of ethnicity, religion and language. To understand these and other political processes, this MSc programme draws upon the concepts and methods of the sub-disciplines of comparative politics (political sociology and political economy) and international relations. The evidence from Asia will also reveal the relevance and limitations of the concepts and methods derived from North American/European settings and suggest ways in which they may be modified. The expertise available in the Department enables students to concentrate on one of the sub-regions of Asia, (East Asia. South Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia) should they choose to do so. Alternatively, they may follow a more comparative approach by selecting a mixture of units covering different sub-regions.
Convenors
Dafydd Fell
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Subjects
- Politics
- Security
- IT
- International
- IT Security
- Political Thought
- Intercultural awareness
- International Politics
- Analytical skill
- Critical skills
- Cultural Awareness
- Visual culture
- Asian Politics
- Caucasus
- Japan Unravelled
Course programme
Learn a language as part of this programme
Degree programmes at SOAS - including this one - can include language courses in more than forty African and Asian languages. It is SOAS students’ command of an African or Asian language which sets SOAS apart from other universities.
Students take taught modules to the value of 4 full units + dissertation:90 credits from List A (compulsory);
30 credits from List B or C or any open option with the approval of the degree convenor
Dissertation on some aspect of Asian Politics (compulsory).
- Government and politics of modern South Asia
- Government and politics of modern South East Asia
- State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Northeast Asian politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan
- State and society in the Chinese political process
- China and international politics
- Taiwan's politics and cross-strait relations
- International politics of East Asia
- Japan Unravelled
- The Indian Ocean in World Politics
- Politics of Globalisation and Development in Asia and Africa
- State & society in Asia & Africa
- Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
- Comparative International Political Thought
- Political Thought on the Just Rebellion
- Islamic/Democratic Political Thought
- Approaches to Comparative Political Thought
- Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Social Research
- The economic development of South East Asia
- Economic problems and policies in modern China
- Japanese Modernity I
- Japanese Modernity II
- Elementary Spoken Cantonese (PG)
- Elementary spoken Hokkien (Minnanyu, Taiwanese) (PG)
- Chinese 1 (PG)
- Japanese 1 (PG)
- Bengali Language 1 (PG)
- Nepali Language 1 (PG)
- Urdu Language 1 (PG)
- Burmese Language 1 (PG)
- Indonesian Language 1 (PG)
- Khmer (Cambodian) Language 1 (PG)
- Thai Language 1 (PG)
- Vietnamese Language 1 (PG)
- Dissertation in Political Studies
This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants
If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.
Programme Specification- MSc Asian Politics Programme Specification 2012 (pdf; 191kb)
Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules
MSc Asian Politics