International Relations Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Overview

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations offers a unique combination of conceptual International Relations and diplomacy master level courses focused on theory and the development of essential diplomatic skills.

Master of Arts in International Relations program aim

• To prepare and develop graduates for a career in departments of government, politics, international relations, international affairs, journalism and business.
• To develop students’ intellectual capabilities of analysis and interpretation, critical evaluation, selection and synthesis, reasoned argument, research and problem solving.
• To provide students with an interactive teaching environment which also gives them an appropriate research grounding in the study of international relations, including its political, social, and economic aspects.
• To ensure that students acquire a solid understanding of methodologies to study international policies, procedures, and processes.
• To ensure that students acquire a solid knowledge of theories of international relations, the heritage and development of the discipline, its major debates, its inherent nature as an interdisciplinary study, and a critical appreciation of the essentially contested nature of politics in general and international relations in particular.
• To ensure that students acquire an advanced understanding of the relationship between theoretical, methodological, and empirical content of the topics studied.
• To develop students’ personal, analytical, communication and diplomatic skills.