International Relations and Middle East Studies

About this course

International Relations and Middle East Studies is a degree that combines the analytical frameworks of political science with deep specialist knowledge of one of the world's most geopolitically significant and complex regions. International Relations, as the MA (Hons) in the Scottish degree system describes it, teaches you to explore the origins of war and peace, the making of foreign policy, trade regimes, international terrorism, human rights, international law, and the interaction of political and economic development in the international system. Adding a Middle East specialism brings this general analytical framework to bear on a region whose political dynamics, resource endowments, colonial legacies, and religious and ethnic complexities have shaped global affairs for well over a century. At the University of St Andrews, this four-year full-time programme develops your understandin

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