International Political Economy (Taught)

Do you want to understand the sources of stability and change in the global economic order? International Political Economy prepares you to understand the structures, hierarchies, and power dynamics that regulate finance and trade, drive globalisation and economic nationalisms, and impact the distribution of wealth and poverty across and within states, regions, and the world.

The MSc in International Political Economy prepares you to understand the structures, hierarchies, and power dynamics that regulate finance and trade, drive globalisation and economic nationalisms, and impact the distribution of wealth and poverty across and within states, regions, and the world.

This programme introduces you to the conceptual and theoretical terrain of international political economy, with a particular focus on the dimensions of globalisation that have re-shaped international flows of capital, goods, and labour.

Some of the topics covered throughout this programme neoliberalism, international trade, financialization, gender, poverty and inequality, development, post-development and the rise of economic nationalism.

You will gain a rigorous academic grounding in the scholarly debates about key substantive issues and the relation between theory and policymaking, preparing you for further studies in IPE or for a career in policymaking, research, and more in the private and public sectors.