MA in Global AffairsA Professional Training ProgrammeEntries in April & September

A Professional Training ProgrammeThe only one of its kind in the United Kingdom

• This Programme aims to educate graduates for rapidadvancement into senior professional work in foreign andother ministries, international organisations, financial andcommercial institutions, trade and industry, internationaljournalism and global civil society organisations.

• Areas of study include international law, global economicsand finance, global governance, and the historical evolutionof the global system, along with more specific subjects suchas conflict and security issues, international environmentalpolitics and international negotiating.

• Professional skills training - a Buckingham innovation - is

central to the Programme. Students are trained in the skillsthat would be required in senior professional work.

• The courses are taught intensively in small groups throughlectures and tutorials; they assume little prior knowledgebut rapidly bring students to an advanced level ofunderstanding. Buckingham is a small academiccommunity and students have personal and frequent accessto their instructors.

• The Programme is also suitable for those without a specificcareer aim in mind but who wish to acquire an advancedunderstanding of global affairs.

Department of Economics and International Studies

One-yearPostgraduatedegreeprogrammes

The MA in Global Affairs offered by the University of Buckingham's Department of Economics and International Studies covers a widerange of topic areas in global affairs. The twelve courses in the Programme are taught by experienced academics over the course of12 months (4 terms).

Academics on the programme:

Dr Deborah S. Davenport, Programme DirectorBA (Wellesley, USA), MA (Salford, UK), PhD (Emory, USA)Dr Charles Henn, Founding DirectorLArts (Hons) (Buckingham), MSc [Econ] (London), LLM, PhD (Cantab)Professor John ClarkeMA, DPhil (Oxon)Professor Richard LanghorneBA (St John's, Cambridge)Dr Cornelia NavariBA (Barnard College, New York) MSc [Econ] (LSE), DPhil (Birmingham)

Professor Martin RickettsBA (Hons) [Econ] (Newcastle), DPhil (York)Dr Raouf TajvidiDPhil (Westminster)Dr Philip TowleDPhil, BA (Cambridge), PhD (London)Professor GeoffreyWoodMA (Aberdeen), MA (Essex)

Entry requirements?The Buckingham MA inGlobal Affairs DegreeProgramme is open toapplicants with a BA or BSc inany subject. Applicants withouta BA or BSc but with relevant workexperience will also be considered.How to apply?You can apply direct to the University ofBuckingham. Download an applicationform or apply online.www.buckingham.ac.uk/study/applyFor more information please contactLinda Waterman, Tel. +44 (0)1280 820120ScholarshipsStudents can apply for the Max Beloffscholarship in Global Affairs worth £1,000,which may be awarded annually to thestudent with the best performance after thefirst term's study on theMA in Global Affairs Programme.For information on other scholarships pleasecontact the Admissions Department.

Courses on the Programme:• Economic Issues in Global Affairs (30 units)Many of the most important global issues are economic innature. This course provides students with the knowledge ofeconomic ideas necessary to understand and to criticiseprofessional economic advice. It covers issues of trade,development and the environment as well as the nature andstability of the international financial system.

• International Law for Global Affairs (30 units)Designed for non-lawyers and covering both public internationallaw and international trade and investment law, the course aimsto give students a mature graduate-level understanding of howinternational law facilitates, regulates and constrains globalrelations, and how arbitral and judicial institutions settledisputes between states and between states and other entities.The course includes personalised professional skills training.

• International Environmental Politics (15 units)Aims to increase students’ awareness of a selection of criticalenvironmental policy-making issues at the international leveland the forces behind these issues and global environmentaldegradation more broadly. Students learn to assess attemptedsolutions and practise developing their own proposals.

• Security Studies (30 units)Introduces pressing topical issues at the international level. Itaims to enhance understanding of the interconnections betweenvarious global issues and encourages students to attempt todevelop realistic ways of addressing them.

• International Negotiation (15 units)Familiarises students with useful terms, concepts, and theoriesfor understanding the negotiating process and the structures ofinternational negotiations in particular. It is designed to buildstudents’ negotiating skills and advance their understanding ofinternational policy-making processes and the politics involved.

• Global Governance (15 units)Aims to advance students’ understanding of what globalisationis, why it has happened and what its principal consequenceshave been. The course addresses the effects of globalinstitutions as well as situations where global governance doesnot exist even where there are global issues to be resolved.

• History of the International System (30 units)Provides students with a basic knowledge of internationalhistory over approximately the past 1000 years. It is one of theunderlying messages of the course that ‘history’ and ‘theory’should not be regarded as separate compartments.

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• Low student-teacher ratio and small classes

• Enjoy easy access to professors and to other academicmembers of staff

• Study in a uniquely international academic community(students from 80 different countries in a student body offewer than 800)

• Live on campus in purpose-built student accommodation

• Be near Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon and London but livein the heart of the English countryside

LocationBirmingham Airport to Buckingham 62 milesGatwick Airport to Buckingham 103 milesHeathrow Airport to Buckingham 66 milesLondon 65 milesLuton Airport to Buckingham 37 milesOxford 30 milesStansted Airport to Buckingham 68 miles

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