This concentration focuses on issues in world politics across different geographical scales ranging from cities, provinces, and countries to questions of world order involving the Global North and the Global South. These issues include war and peace, reform and revolution, security and foreign and defence policy, trade and finance, poverty and development, democracy and authoritarianism, human rights and wrongs, struggles over gender, race, class, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, migration, climate change, and others.
To understand these issues, students explore the theory and practice of political power and political economy, state and civil society, ideas and ideologies, institutions and governance, culture and identity, media and technology, citizenship and non-citizenship, and political parties and social movements. The study of the issues and dynamics of world politics may also focus on global and regional international blocs and organizations, and the domestic politics of different countries and world regions.
Students may specialize in different topics such as:
Security & foreign policy
International political economy & development
Human rights, migration & environment
Regional politics – global North
Regional politics – global South
Concentration Core Courses
PSCI 2601 – IR: Global Politics
PSCI 2602 – IR: Global Political Economy
PSCI 2101 – Comparative Politics of the Global North
PSCI 2102 – Comparative Politics of the Global South
PSCI 2200 – Introduction to U.S. Politics
Concentration Electives
Choose from a wide array of specialized topics and courses at the 3000- and 4000-levels.
Please refer to the undergraduate calendar for full list of courses.