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MA in Global Affairs
A professional training programme
– the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom
Why is the Buckingham MA in Global Affairs special?
- The Buckingham MA in Global Affairs has 12 courses taught over 4 terms lasting 12 calendar months.
- The Buckingham MA in Global Affairs offers individualised professional skills training throughout the programme. This professional skills training is a Buckingham innovation.
How much will it cost?
Tuition fees and methods of payment, including discounts for advance payment, can be found on our postgraduate tuition fees page.
Are there any scholarships?
The Max Beloff Scholarship in Global Affairs, which is worth £1,000, will be awarded annually to the student with the best performance after the first term's study on the MA in Global Affairs programme. The decision about the award will be made by the Board of Examiners, at the recommendation of the Programme Co-ordinator. The Dean of the School of Humanities shall have discretion not to award the Scholarship in any given year. The Scholarship is in the form of a cash sum.
What does the programme offer?
- This Programme aims to educate graduates for rapid advancement into senior professional work in foreign and other ministries, international organisations, financial and commercial institutions, trade and industry, international journalism and global civil society organisations.
- Areas of study include global economies and finance; public international law; international law relating to trade, investment and finance; global governance; global security; human rights; environmental issues; global diplomacy; and global business.
- Professional skills training - a Buckingham innovation - is central to the Programme. Students are trained in the skills that would be required in senior professional work.
- The courses are taught intensively in lectures, seminars and small group tutorials; they assume little prior knowledge but rapidly bring students to an advanced level of understanding. Buckingham is a small academic community and students have personal and frequent access to their instructors.
- The Programme is also suitable for those without a specific career aim in mind but who wish to acquire an advanced understanding of global affairs.
Who are the instructors for the programme?
John Clarke, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), Professor of History, Secretary to Council. Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Research areas include George III, the social and economic history of the early 19th Century and British diplomatic history. Author of British Diplomacy and Foreign Policy 1782-1865: The National Interest (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
More information about John Clarke.
Charles Henn,
LArts
(Hons) (Buckingham),
MSc
[Econ] (London),
LLM,
PhD
(Cantab.). Designer of the MA in Global Affairs programme. Consultant
Professor and the MA in Global Affairs programme's
Founding Director and Programme Director. Advisor to foreign ministries of many states; formerly
Honorary Senior Fellow in International Law and Organisations,
Graduate School of Political Science and International Studies,
University of Birmingham,
UK.
More information about Charles Henn.
Michael Jefferson, MA (Oxon.), is also Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and Professor of International Business and Sustainability in the Centre for International Business and Sustainability at London Metropolitan Business School. He spent nearly 20 years at Shell in various roles from Head of Planning in Europe to Director of Oil Supply and Trading, and 10 years as Deputy Secretary-General of the World Energy Council. He has written several books in the fields of energy and economics; contributed to books on economic and social history; and written or co-authored many peer-reviewed papers in the energy and environmental field.
More information about Michael Jefferson.
Richard Langhorne, MA (Cantab.).
Professor of Global Politics. Formerly Director of the Centre for
International Studies at Cambridge University; Fellow of St John's College,
Cambridge; Director of Wilton Park, think-tank and diplomatic conference
centre of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office; most recently, Professor
of Political Science and Director of the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers
University, New Jersey, USA. Author of numerous books, including
The Coming of Globalization: Its Evolution and Contemporary Consequences (St Martin's Press,
2001) and The Essentials of Global Politics (Hodder Arnold, 2005).
More information about Richard Langhorne.
Cornelia Navari, PhD (Birmingham). Visiting Professor in International Affairs. Publications include British Politics and the Spirit of the Age: Political Concepts in Action (Keele University Press, 2000), Chatham House and British Foreign Policy during the Inter-War Period (with Andrea Bosco, Lothian Foundation Press, 1994) and Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2000). Her current research is into international regulatory regimes and involves a number of linked projects covering regime development and the elaboration of new compliance systems.
More information about Cornelia Navari
Martin Ricketts,
BA
(Hons) [Econ]
(Newcastle),
DPhil
(York). Professor of Economic
Organisation, Dean of Humanities. Honorary Professor, Heriot-Watt
University,
UK
. Formerly Economic Director, National
Economic Development Office,
UK
(1991-1992); Chairman
of the International Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic
Affairs, London. Author of
The Economics of Business
Enterprise
(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; 3rd ed. 2002).
More information about Martin Ricketts.
Raouf Tajvidi, DPhil (Westminster). A former architect, Dr Tajvidi changed his career to political science in 1993. He has been teaching comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, international relations and the politics of the European Union at various British as well as overseas universities since. He has a first degree in History and Politics from the Open University and a Master's in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Westminster. His doctorate, from Westminster's Centre for the Study of Democracy, was on United States foreign policy towards Iran. His research interests include EU-US relations, comparative politics and methodological implications for social science research. He is currently working on a book on US-Iran relations.
More information about Raouf Tajvidi.
Philip Towle is Reader in International Relations at the University of
Cambridge and was previously Director of the Centre of International
Studies there. He has worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and
the Australian National University in Canberra. He has written 11 books
including ones on enforced disarmament after wars, on post-war peace
negotiations and on the history of Anglo-Japanese relations. He is
currently finishing a book entitled Good Samaritans and Imperialists: the
British and War from Wilberforce to Blair.
More information about Philip Towle.
Geoffrey Wood has lectured in Economics at the University of Warwick and in Banking and Finance at City University, London, where he has been Professor since 1986. He worked at the Bank of England as Economist, and later as Special Adviser on Financial Stability. He was also Visiting Scholar at the Federal Bank of St Louis. He has acted as economic adviser to various firms and organisations, including W. Greenwell & Co., the Union Discount Company of London, the New Zealand Treasury and the Bank of Finland. Visiting professorships have taken him to universities around the world: South Carolina, Harvard, London, Athens and Oxford. Since 1991 he has been a trustee of the Wincott Foundation. He is the author, co-author or editor of over twenty books, and he has published over fifty papers in academic journals, as well as doing a good amount of written and broadcast journalism. Recent books co-edited with F.H. Capie include The Development of Monetary Theory in the 1920s and 1930s (1999), and Policy Makers on Policy (2001).
More information about Geoffrey Wood.
What will you study?
- History of the International System
- International Law for Global Affairs
- Global Governance
- Economic Issues in Global Affairs
- Diplomacy
- Global Business
- Security Challenges: Flashpoints and Hotspots
- Security Challenges and Other Global Issues
Please visit the Programme Structure for September, April or July for more details.
How is the programme assessed?
- Assessments for each course will take the form of written tests, innovative papers and occasional oral presentations.
- Students have the option of submitting one 12,500-word research paper in lieu of a test in specific areas of the programme.
- Candidates whose total average mark is above 70 are awarded the MA with Distinction; those whose total average mark is between 60 and 69 are awarded the MA with Merit; those whose total average mark is between 50 and 59 are awarded the MA and those whose total average mark is between 40 and 49 are awarded the Diploma.
What are the entry requirements?
- The Buckingham MA in Global Affairs degree programme is open to applicants with a BA or BSc in any subject. Applicants without a BA or BSc but with relevant work experience will also be considered.
- Following its introduction in September, 2006, the programme has entry points in April, July and September each year.
- For more information, please contact Linda Waterman, Tel +44 (0) 1280 820120, in the Department of Economics and International Studies.
- How to apply.
| Full time: | Yes |
| Part time: | No |
| Award: | MA |
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Entry points:
(Term dates) |
April July September This is a 4-term programme, which takes 1 year to complete. |
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