International Relations

This exciting course examines contemporary world politics across three main study themes: International Relations, Globalisation, and Politics.

Coventry University offers you an exciting and innovative International Relations degree. You will learn about international affairs in depth by:

* Studying questions of power, political decision-making, conflict, peace, foreign policy, democracy, human rights, and social movements.

* Considering how foreign policy decision-makers and international organisations respond in the face of war, social movements, terrorism, political struggles, democratic advances, and setbacks.

* Reflecting on how these issues have impacted regions around the world, such as the Middle East, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and China.

Key Course Benefits

* You should get a deeper understanding of the rationale for and value of cooperative relationships between nations, and of the foreign policy challenges.

* You will explore how the world is becoming ever more interdependent with the resulting global socio-political changes. This includes the rising cost of foreign aid and the impact of non-English speaking immigrants within the education system – increasingly affecting people at a local level.

* You will examine major themes of post-war international politics, including: The dominant relationship between the superpowers, the consequences of decolonisation, the emergence of the 'Third World', the spread of revolutionary wars, the development of European integration, the spread and final collapse of communism and its effect on world politics at the end of the Cold War.