MRes in Global Political Economy: Transformations and Policy Analysis

This programme is one of five interdisciplinary pathways that are delivered as part of the South West Doctoral Training Centre (SWDTC). This pathway is designed to foreground the dynamics of global transformation and their policy implications, as well as their interrelations with national and regional institutional and social responses to the changing global political and economic order.

The pathway encourages you to analyse the diverse experiences and impacts of economic globalisation, examine relationships between global governance and inequality, and to understand that analysis and resolution of many of the key problems that confront humanity in the 21st century require new and interdisciplinary academic approaches, innovative methods and policy agendas, as well as creative thinking and transnationally comparative datasets.

Core units

• Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Design
• Global Transformations - Issues and Trajectories

Optional units

These can be taken at either Bristol or Bath.
Please note: units may be subject to change.

Units available at Bristol

• International Political Economy
• East Asia and Global Development
• East Asia and International Business
• East Asia, Europe and Global Integration
• Sino-US Relations in Global Politics
• China in Transition: Development Strategies and Reform
• Theories of Development
• Governance, Institutions and the Global Political Economy
• Migration, Asylum and Human Rights in the EU
• Environmental Politics
• International Law VI: International Law and Human Rights
• International Law of Trade and Aid

Units available at Bath

• The Politics of Policy: Actors, Arenas and Conflict in International Perspective
• International Development and Poverty
• Wellbeing and Human Development: Concepts, Measurements and Policy

Dissertation