International Relations and Modern History

About this course

International relations and modern history is a degree that takes the most significant political and geopolitical developments of the past two centuries and examines them from both a historical and a theoretical perspective. Modern history provides the empirical depth: the detailed knowledge of how states have behaved, how wars have been fought and concluded, how imperial systems have risen and fallen, and how the international order has been repeatedly remade in the wake of great crises. International relations provides the analytical frameworks: theories of how states interact, how international institutions function, how power is distributed and exercised, and how cooperation and conflict emerge from the structure of the international system. Together they produce an unusually rich and practically relevant education. At the University of St Andrews, this four-year full-time programme

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 75% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 20% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 30% of graduatescards →

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