Global Political Economy MA

Delve into the intricate, symbiotic relationship between politics, players and global trade, then harness your knowledge to tackle the most pressing issues faced by contemporary society.
  • via Kings College London
  • Program Fee: £18,500

Course Overview

This Global Political Economy MA is an interdisciplinary online programme that explores the interactions of political, economic, and social forces in a global context, and how they are transforming our world. Such forces include individual states, international organisations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. It also extends to transnational social movements, such as the global climate movement and mass mobilisations against authoritarian rulers.

You’ll consider and come to appreciate the extent to which the global political economy impacts and transforms our everyday world. Its consequences include, for example, economic, financial, and environmental crises, conflict poverty, inequality, and gender relations.

Course details

Mode:100% online
Length:2 years, part time
Fees: £18,500
Start dates: 23 September 2024
Next welcome week:
Next start date: 23 September 2024
Application deadline: 23 August 2024

How you're assessed

Modules will be assessed through a variety of assessment types. This will predominantly include:

 

Coursework essays

 

 

(both summative and formative) 

 

Online quizzes and activities

 

 

Individual and group presentations

 

 

Written and oral assessments

 

 

including (but not limited to) policy briefs, research proposals, and multimedia presentations. 

As already mentioned, some parts of the programme will include group-based assessment (formative and summative), alongside the mainstay of individual assessment.

What are the entry requirements?

A minimum 2:1 honours degree (or above) in a social science or humanities subject.

Non standard route

Please note that if you have a lower degree classification, or a degree in an unrelated subject, your application may still be considered. You’ll need to demonstrate significant relevant work experience or offer a related graduate qualification (such as a master’s or PGDip).

English language band: B 

To study at King’s, it is essential that you can communicate in English effectively in an academic environment. You’re usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

Nationals of majority English speaking countries (as defined by the UKVI) who have permanently resided in this country are not usually required to complete an additional English language test. This is also the case for applicants who have successfully completed:

  • An undergraduate degree (at least three years duration) within five years of the course start date.
  • A postgraduate taught degree (at least one year) within five years of the course start date.
  • A PhD in a majority English-speaking country (as defined by the UKVI) within five years of the course start date.

For information on our English language requirements and whether you need to complete an English language test, please see our English Language requirements page.

Depending on your previous qualifications, you may need to submit a personal statement and a reference letter as part of your application.

You’ll need to submit a copy (or copies) of your official academic transcript(s), showing the subjects studied and marks obtained. If you’ve already completed your degree, copies of your official degree certificate will also be required. Applicants with academic documents issued in a language other than English, will need to submit both the original and official translation of their documents.

You’ll need to submit your CV as part of your application to highlight your experience.

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Course modules

Following the long tail of the global financial and economic crisis of 2007-2008, globalisation is increasingly targeted as part of the problem by supposedly anti-established figures of all political stripes. This resulting backlash has, according to many observers, resulted in de-globalisation, not only with respect to patterns in trade and investment, but also in policy terms, with a return to protectionist measures, including in the form of trade wars.

Against this backdrop, this module focuses particularly on different approaches and theories for understanding the global political economy. It will equip you with key analytical tools to make sense of contemporary transformations, which will be explored in the follow-up module connected to this one, Issues in Global Political Economy.

More specifically, the module is organised in three parts. Firstly, it focuses on approaches that precede the emergence of a global political economy, but still provide tools and insights relevant for its functioning today. Secondly, it zooms in on dominant approaches from International Political Economy (IPE), the field most directly concerned with the global political economy.

Finally, the module will also help you assess the value of heterodox and critical approaches to the study of the global political economy, including most notably Marxist, neo-Gramscian, and feminist scholarship.

 

This module is the follow-up to Global Political Economy: Theories & Approaches. It centres globalisation as a material process that has fundamentally reshaped the international political economy that emerged after World War Two into the global system we live in today.

The module is organised in three main parts. The first focuses on financial globalisation, with a particular emphasis on the consequence of the collapse of the Bretton Woods exchange rate arrangement and on the global financial crisis of 2007-8 and its long aftermath.

The second part instead focuses on the globalisation of production, looking at how transformations in the international trade regime have facilitated the emergence and spread of global value chains.

The final part of the module examines global challenges that might not immediately seem related to the global political economy but are in fact deeply affected by it. They range from the climate crisis to the implications of international migration to the prospects of addressing poverty and inequality.

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