Birkbeck, University of London

Starting Date: October 2020

Venue: Central London

Other entry years for this course: 2021

Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time

Our MSc Middle East in Global Politics: Islam, Conflict and Development will deepen your knowledge and understanding of the history and politics of the Middle East and Islam, while honing your ability to make well-informed, critical analyses of the region in the context of global politics.

You go on to choose two option modules from a wide variety of topics including international security, American foreign policy, globalization, political theory and sociology, nationalism and religion, and war and conflict. You will also learn research techniques that will enable you to specialize and write a dissertation on the subject that interests you most.

The Department of Politics is a world-renowned center of original, influential research. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF), Politics at Birkbeck was ranked 17th in the UK. The Department organizes a lively program of seminars and conferences and is home to affiliated research centers, such as the Birbeck Centre for British Political Life, which run seminars, conferences and other events where some of the world’s best scholars present their latest research.

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