This MA is based in the Department of War Studies, one of the only academic departments in the world to focus solely on the complexities of conflict and security. War Studies is an interdisciplinary department and all War Studies students benefit from research-led teaching in such subjects as the history and evolution of war and grand strategy, arms control and non-proliferation, migration.
The Department of War Studies at King's College London is one of the only academic departments in the world to focus solely on the complexities of conflict and security. Our community come from a range of disciplines and nationalities, with backgrounds including diplomacy, journalism, law, health and the arts.
Born in London, Francesca Scott is a postgraduate student in the Department of War Studies studying an MA in International Relations. Francesca studied History as an undergraduate at Leeds University and spent a year abroad studying in Sweden. It was in Sweden that she first realised her insatiable interest in war, conflict and international affairs as she.
I have got offers from LSE MSc International Relations and KCL MA War Studies, and waiting for Oxford application outcome. Does someone have an idea which is the best one for going on to PhD? I'm deeply interested in the war studies stuff at King's, but on the other hand I also think it might be better to equip myself with IR theory at LSE.
KCL War Studies or SOAS International Relations and Politics? Should I have gone to LSE instead of KCL for IR? War Studies KCL or International Relations Queen Mary Warwick or King's College London University reputation or department reputation ? King's College MA War Studies, LSE MSc International Relations, MPHIL IR Oxford.
Although there are no compulsory modules in Year 2, all joint honours students are required to ensure that at least one of their two optional module choices for the year is either Intelligence in War Studies or War in International Order or World War II in Europe. The final year dissertation is compulsory, but may be written with either department.
This dissertation investigates the recent transformations of security practice and arms industries in post-Cold War societies. Specifically, I analyse emerging actors and technologies positioned in the sociohistorical context of Sweden in the 90s and 00s, and how new threats and risks as well as new ideas for how to secure society became constructed and imposed in structures of so-called total.
Pedro is a postgraduate in the Intelligence and International Security MA programme at King’s College London (KCL), War Studies Department. His ongoing dissertation research focuses on assessing the soft-power tool of transformative education to counter extremism and hate prejudice within the Israel-Palestine conflict.
This thesis explores the issue of the utility of junior partners in coalition warfare in the post-Cold War era. It begins with the observation that the International Relations and strategic studies literatures are surprisingly under-developed on the issue of coalition leader and the junior partners.