If you are an energetic and innovative thinker, eager to grapple with some of the most urgent issues the world faces today, UEA’s Masters in International Relations offers the ideal postgraduate course for you. Covering the key concepts and theoretical traditions within International Relations and their relevance to contemporary themes in world politics, our MA in IR offers you a challenging and thought-provoking degree.

We work alongside you to think critically about the global challenges facing us: climate change, for instance, international security, or changing global governance with the rise of emerging powers and the global South. Taught by leading authorities in the field, our modules will get you thinking in new ways as you cover critical issues, key actors and alternative methods of analysis and interpretation.

MA International Relations invites you to explore the biggest questions in global politics. It is an inspiring and challenging course of study, and our field-leading team of IR experts is here to support you as you grapple with those challenges.

Our MA will introduce you to theories, analytical frameworks, and methods to understand the dynamics of global interaction. The course’s flexible structure invites you to deepen and refine your knowledge in specialist modules, getting to grips with the ever-increasing complexity of the world today. You might study war, peace, conflict and security, as well as a range of other transnational dynamics, such as global economics, the environment, human rights, religion and migration.

Students are welcomed to our MA from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, bringing a rich intellectual and cultural mix to each cohort. You may have studied IR before, but many of our students have backgrounds in geography, sociology, environmental studies, economics, or in the Arts and Humanities. What unites our students is that they are interested in the wider application of their knowledge to the international sphere.

We are proud to be committed to decolonising the curriculum. There are many ways of understanding this process. Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o uses the term in reference to an ongoing process of “seeing ourselves clearly”. African thinker Achille Mbembe explains that for Ngugi this process is about writing oneself, teaching oneself. Our IR team is eager to accompany you in this process, discussing, debating, and thinking together in a process of co-learning.