This programme aims to equip students with the intellectual skills to analyse contemporary international affairs from a philosophically informed perspective, with a particular focus on their ethical dimensions. In the new and rapidly expanding field of international political theory, issues that relate to justice, rights, political obligation and forms of government have grown beyond their nation-state context, and now need to be examined in light of increasing global integration. This political philosophy programme looks at these international issues with a particular focus on their ethical dimensions, examining the rights and wrongs of international affairs and their global political and economic consequences. As well as delving into the history of political thought, you'll be examining the issues of today, with particular emphasis on normative political theory, learning to analyse contemporary international affairs from a philosophically informed perspective. Students who follow this programme will be able to extend and further develop their understanding of the main concepts and methods of political theory; understand how concepts of justice, rights and democracy apply in international and global contexts; assess critically how existing transnational institutions meet, or fail to meet, appropriate normative standards; apply analytical, critical and philosophical methods to the study of empirical problems in the field of international politics.