• Politics is the study of the way power and influence are distributed within society and how this affects decision making within and among countries and states.
  • Introduction to politics examines the British and Scottish political systems in a comparative perspective to introduce key concepts in the study of politics and foreign policymaking.
  • Introduction to international relations uses the ideas of important writers to explain key aspects of the international order.
  • History of political thought examines political thought from the ancients, primarily Aristotle, through Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke to Rousseau and Karl Marx.
  • Comparative politics in a globalising world explores and compares different countries to introduce students to the variety of political regimes that exist in the contemporary international system.