Diplomacy, Politics and Trade

The aims of this module are to:
Introduce students to the dynamic world of digital diplomacy through a range of cases and issues from across world. The overarching objective is to provide students with a practical understanding of how digital diplomacy works in practices, its promises and its drawbacks, its relationship with power, networks, agenda-setting, visibility, and communication. The module will also critically appraise the relationship between digital diplomacy and democracy and uncover some tensions in relation to truth, knowledge, security and (mis)information. It aims to uncover the role of non-state actors (individuals, activists, journalists, influencers, disporas, charities, corporations, minorities) in digital diplomacy demonstrating that widening engagement means widening the agenda.

More information to follow.

The aim of this module is to understand the main features, concepts and practices of international negotiations. It provides an overview of the most important elements of negotiation and offers an application to a number of case studies.

The aims of this module are to:

• Examine the distinctiveness of national business systems
• Investigate the context of management in comparative perspective
• Identify the challenges facing companies that manage across nationally distinct business systems
• Appreciate the pressures towards convergence and divergence in the nature of managerial work

The module introduces the issues around media and social movements, by tracing the theoretical evolution of media and social movements, understanding media within broader social movements in historical processes rather than merely focusing on media technologies or impact media. The model seeks to cover topics on control of media systems on different regions of the world, alternative media practices, identity, social media, campaigns, visual culture and protest, and media ecologies.

The aims of this module are to:

Equip students with the necessary academic skills to understand the role corporate governance plays, both in theory and practice, in generating financial and economic development.

The aims of this module are to:

• Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself.
• Provide students with hands on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.
• Support the development of students' ability to engage in critical enquiry and individual reflection, as well as to apply individual strengths and skills, building on their own educational backgrounds.
• Provide students with opportunities for networking with stakeholders, organisations and corporations, aiming to enhance the competence and skills needed to connect to relevant parties and build up future professional opportunities

The past forty years has witnessed an unprecedented growth in cities in both the developed and developing world. This module will introduce students to the concepts and theories of global cities and the politics, governance, economics, society, security and international relations issues connected to them. The central case study will be London, but students will research other cities to examine the main debates and controversies surrounding cities and their place in the world. The module will explore such issues as how to define global cities, the history of cities in international relations and economics, the social, infrastructure, economic and governance pressures facing cities, the role of cities in international security and in diplomacy (for example, the concept of paradiplomacy or city diplomacy). This course will allow students to understand the role of cities in global politics, not least their relationship with the states they form parts of. The course will also allow students to better understand London, the city they have chosen to study in, and some of the cities most of them will spend their lives living and working in.

The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the Changing World Order aims to introduce students to the way the rise of the BRICS at the turn of the 21st century has come to challenge the Western-led order in world politics. The module will focus on each of the five BRICS countries and investigate how the evolution of their domestic and foreign policies has influenced their rise in world politics. An emphasis will be put on foreign policy and diplomacy, together with the tools, capabilities or resources employed by the BRICS in order to project their power in world politics. Simultaneously, the module will engage with different interpretations of power in world politics, drawing on various theories of international relations. This allows the module to probe into the role of the rise of the BRICS in influencing power shifts in world politics. In broader terms the module evaluates various policy consequences of emerging power shifts and the (potential) responses of the BRICS and the West.

The aims of this module are to:

• Equip students with an understanding of the capabilities and strategies companies use to manage and shape the political and institutional environment around them
• Generate an awareness of the nature and types of political risks that companies face in various contexts and how they assess and manage these risks

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject, business problem or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.

The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

• A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice
• A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments
• A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained)

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.