MSc State, Society and Development

SOAS, University of London

Master

In City of London

£ 11,545 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
This MSc programme seeks to explain state-society relations and development in Asia, Africa and (where appropriate) Latin America through the sub-disciplines of comparative political sociology and comparative/international political economy. Students will study the core concepts of these sub-disciplines such as: state; civil society; social closure; class; bureaucracy; patrimonialism; hegemony; late-industrialisation; product cycle; developmental state; rent-seeking; good governance; and globalization.
They will also be exposed to the principal analytical perspectives of political science such as historical institutionalism, rational choice theory and Marxism. These intellectual foundations will enable students to gain a better understanding of the shaping factors behind phenomena such as: state collapse and criminalisation in Africa; cronyism in Southeast Asia and Latin America; religious fundamentalism in South Asia; economic take-off in East Asia; linguistic nationalism in Central Asia; the ‘third wave’ of democratisation; global financial instability; and the relationship between the Washington Institutions and the South.
Students will also come to understand the usefulness of cross-regional comparison by seeing how the study of one region can illuminate similar issues elsewhere, despite differing cultural contexts.
Convenors
Tat Yan Kong

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Latin

Course programme

Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation.

1. 30 credits from List A;
2. 60 credits from List A, B or C

3. 30 credits from LSS option modules, with the convenor's approval
4. 60 credit Dissertation on some aspect of State & Development or State & Society (compulsory) from D.

Please note that not all option modules may run every year.

List A. Politics of Development & Globalization AND/OR State and Society must be taken (30 or 60 credits) as a core module/s
  • State & society in Asia & Africa
  • Politics of Globalisation and Development in Asia and Africa
B. 60 credits from List A, B or C
  • Government and politics in Africa
  • Government and politics of modern South Asia
  • Government and politics of modern South East Asia
  • State and society in the Chinese political process
  • Northeast Asian politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan
  • State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus
  • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
  • Infrastructures, Conflict and Struggle
  • The Indian Ocean in World Politics
  • Political society in the Middle East
  • State and transformation in the Middle East
  • Taiwan's politics and cross-strait relations
  • Japan Unravelled
  • Asian Security
List C: 60 credits from List A, B or C
  • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion
  • Political violence
  • Urban Politics in the Middle East
  • Approaches to Comparative Political Thought
  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Social Research
List D: Dissertation must be taken and based on a theme in one of the core modules
  • 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
  • Programme Specification 2012 (pdf; 214kb)
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