Our MA and Diploma in IPEU are leading leading postgraduate programmes exploring European politics in the context of the disciplines of international political economy, or international relations. Our staff is at the cutting edge of research in these areas.

The MA in International Politics and Europe examines the European Union, its significance for the world system and the various ways in which it engages with the global political economy. Students are given a disciplinary grounding in either International Relations or International Political Economy and are required through the core module 'Europe and the World' to contemplate questions such as:

• How does the EU organise itself as an actor in the world system?
• To what extent does it by-pass the foreign policy and external relations interests of its component member states?
• Does the EU represent a novel and distinctive presence on the international scene, particularly in comparison with the US?
• Can the EU contribute to a more open, democratic and human rights-based global polity?
• Is the EU merely an organisation prop of neoliberal globalisation?