{"id":35961,"date":"2023-03-29T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?page_id=35961"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:49","slug":"international-relations-and-world-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/undergraduate\/programs\/international-relations-and-world-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"International Relations and World Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n International Relations and World Politics\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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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.
\nTo 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.
\nStudents may specialize in different topics such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security & foreign policy
\nInternational political economy & development
\nHuman rights, migration & environment
\nRegional politics \u2013 global North
\nRegional politics \u2013 global South<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concentration Core Courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PSCI 2601 – IR: Global Politics
\nPSCI 2602 – IR: Global Political Economy
\nPSCI 2101 – Comparative Politics of the Global North
\nPSCI 2102 – Comparative Politics of the Global South
\nPSCI 2200 – Introduction to U.S. Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concentration Electives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Choose from a wide array of specialized topics and courses at the 3000- and 4000-levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please refer to the undergraduate calendar<\/a> for full list of courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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