Tackle the big issues facing global decision-makers such as war, terrorism, security, migration, environmental degradation, climate change, pandemics, poverty, and inequality.

International Political Economy sees politics and economics as inseparable - study the distribution of power, wealth and agency in a rapidly changing, contested global context.

Explore the practice of policy analysis, develop an understanding of normative theory, and engage with world leading work on transnational policymaking.

Develop a deep understanding of the political dimensions of climate change. Explore the political opportunities and obstacles (at the global, regional and national levels) to addressing climate change and its effects.

Engage with multidisciplinary research, policy and practice to assess and analyse the development of postcolonial nation-states and the challenges of economic growth, inequality, justice, sustainability, human freedom and global governance.

Critically engage with traditional concerns over the use of force, nuclear proliferation, conflict, and secret intelligence as well as more recent security challenges such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, organised crime and international terrorism

Explore through normative analysis how questions of right and wrong, of just and unjust, of good and bad arise in and motivate the study of social, legal and political institutions and policy.

Understand how the growing power of big data and quantitative methods influences political processes and decisions in everyday life.

Analyse the contemporary challenges in the East Asia region including security, development, finance, trade, institutions, and the role of great powers, as well as the importance of the wider global context.

Our Double Degree programmes allow you to study a Warwick MA programme for one year as well as a Masters programme at a partner university.

If you are working, or you have other responsibilities which make it difficult to commit to a full-time degree, then you can study your degree over two years, instead of one with a lower weekly commitment over the course of your degree.