• The Master of Arts in International Studies is a graduate degree program that offers a set of rigorous courses to cultivate in-depth knowledge and expertise in analysis of international issues through quantitative and qualitative skills.
  • Ph.D. and MA programs offer advanced students the opportunity to study issues such as globalization, democratic governance, comparative and international political economy, post-Cold War conflicts and security threats, and new forms of civil society mobilization in world politics.
  • To organize the study of these debates in the social sciences, the Department offers three fields of specialization:
  • International Relations: international relations theory; globalization; social movements beyond the nation-state; security studies; peace and conflict studies; international law and organization; international political economy; foreign policy analysis, global public health, and related fields.
  • Comparative Politics: theory and methods of comparative analysis; authoritarian and democratic political regimes; democratic governance and citizenship, comparative political economy; contentious politics and social movements; civil-military relations; and appropriate courses on selected regions, such as the European Union, Latin America, or the Post-Soviet countries.
  • International and Comparative Political Economy: the politics and institutions regulating the global trade, investment, and financial regimes; comparative international development; the politics and economics of international environmental regimes; democracy, partisan politics, and global governance, the domestic and international distributive impacts of globalization; and international economic theory.