Deadline:
May 31, 2025
Program Starts: July 13, 2025
Program Ends: August 02, 2025
Location(s)
United Kingdom
Coventry
Overview
This stimulating course will interrogate the various theories, concepts, and issues in international politics. Theories such as realism and liberalism have offered reliable frameworks for great thinkers to make sense of world affairs for centuries while more recent theories such as social constructivism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism and feminism have expanded what we know about the world especially by offering alternative ways of knowing and practicing international politics.
Issues such as globalisation, interdependence, war and diplomacy, global health crises such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, terrorism, peace and conflict, security, development, migration, climate change and environmental degradation, poverty and starvation, and humanitarian intervention have impacted on human affairs.
In addition to the conceptual and issue-based dimensions discussed above, this course has a practical dimension where students will engage in classroom activities including role-play which will allow you to apply some of the theories to both ‘real-life’ and hypothetical scenarios. This course is taught with both further education (undergraduate and postgraduate) and career pursuits across relevant sectors (such as governmental, and non-governmental organisations) in mind.
Details
This course will examine the core debates, concepts, and thoughts in international politics such anarchy, war, peace, balance of power, interdependence, and interconnectedness among others. In a very supportive setting, the lectures will interrogate key theories such as realism, liberalism, and social constructivism as well as theories such as Marxism, poststructuralism, feminism and postcolonialism without ignoring assumptions surrounding what theory is and what it means to theorise.
With this strong conceptual grounding, the course will then interrogate key issues such as: security, climate change and environmental degradation, globalisation, causes of war and what we can do about them, global health threats and pandemics such as Covid-19, historical and contemporary terrorism and violent extremism, gender and development, peace, conflict and humanitarian intervention, and poverty.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
This course is open to students who are studying or have previously studied at University level and who are new, or looking to delve deeper into International Relations, Security and Development.
Students must be aged 18 or over by the time the Summer School commences and have a good understanding of the English language.
Dates
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Program starts:
July 13, 2025
Program ends:
August 02, 2025
Program Starts: July 13, 2025
Program Ends: August 02, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Warwick Summer School (tuition fee only)
- Student Rate* £2,460
- Standard Rate £3,300
- Application Fee (non-refundable) £50
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Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
