MSc in International Business and Politics

The MSc IBP addresses core business skills and considers business activities within a broader political and economic context. When you graduate you will therefore be equipped to take on the challenges faced by firms, policymakers and their advisers across the globe. Our graduates find employment in a broad range of occupations including management posts in the private and public sectors, business development, research, consultancy, project leadership and the mass media.   
The program rests upon the development of specific skills in the four academic streams around which it is structured: business strategies, international political economy, economics and policymaking processes. The courses within these streams:

1. analyze the decisions made by firms, the factors shaping those decisions, the market and non-market strategies they employ and the contemporary strategic challenges that they face
2. consider the interactions between firms and governments, the prime forces that shape the character of the national and international economy
3. analyze the decisions made by firms, the factors shaping those decisions, the different ideas, interests, and institutions that influence the making and implementation of public policy, the impact of the institutions and structures that mediate between markets and states, and the character of subsequent policy outcomes
4. address issues at regional, national and global levels. It thus considers contemporary developments and processes in and across emerging markets and advanced economies as well as the role played by supra-national institutions such as the World Bank and the European Union
5. assess the ways in which states and businesses respond to contemporary challenges such as sustainability, inequality, the increasing volatility of governance structures and market uncertainties

 
The program also offers broader, transferable skills enabling those who take it to address the challenges and practical dilemmas facing different types of firms. IBP graduates can:

1. identify, retrieve and evaluate relevant research based knowledge;
2. argue analytically, reflectively, and critically at a high academic level;
3. pose and develop relevant questions for analysis
4. utilize the skills introduced on the program so as to identify problems and subject them to methodologically rigorous analyses, communicate research results clearly and precisely and collaborate with others so as to develop solutions for private and public enterprises and organizations.