Explore the interlinked histories, ideas and policies that shape international development. Focus on the relationship between key global political-economic processes and the environment.
Our Development, Environment, and International Politics MSc gives you the knowledge and skills to understand and shape global debates in Development Studies, Global Environmental Politics, and contemporary International Relations.
Equip yourself with analytical and methodological skills, as well as the conceptual and empirical knowledge needed to understand, explain and interrogate the international politics of development and the environment.
Study the political-economic processes, actors and discourses that shape international development policy and practices.
Understand the relationship between development, the environment and international politics.
Engage with a rich interdisciplinary literature that explores the histories and practices of international development with a focus on environmental issues and perspectives from the global South.
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