International Relations of the Middle East – (M.A.)

Location

Streatham Campus, Exeter

This MA provides an advanced understanding, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, of key issues and debates in contemporary Middle East politics. It draws on the research strengths of teaching staff in both the Department of Politics and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

The core curriculum explores key concepts and principal mainstream approaches to international relations, including the realist, English School and neoliberalist accounts, before offering different models of world order today. It applies the analytical framework of international relations to the study of the politics of the Middle East.

Members of staff in the Department and the Institute have extensive experience outside the University including work with the BBC's external service, international NGOs and development agencies, in various government positions and senior management posts, as diplomats and as consultants for business, government and international organisations.

In recent years, graduates of Middle East Politics programmes have found employment in government, particularly in the diplomatic service; in academic institutions, where many are running their own Middle East Politics programmes in different parts of the world; in the media; in business and in organisations responsible for humanitarian assistance in the region.