Advice on Self-Funding a PhD
Self-funding a PhD is something that can be wrongly associated with being of ‘lesser’ academic quality. There are actually many advantages to self funding.
Student Book Features: Comparative Politics
Students embarking on a degree in IR will usually need to become familiar with the broader aspects of political science as an academic discipline. These books will help.
Student Book Features: American Politics
The organisation of the various organs of government in the US can seem impenetrable. The books featured here provide an accessible route into US politics and foreign policy.
Student Book Features: Four Ways into Political Philosophy
Buying a good textbook to help navigate any subject is essential. Each of the texts discussed here brings students to the discipline via a different route.
Student Book Features: Human Rights and International Law
The realist view of law and human rights is rapidly going out of fashion. In its place liberal, constructivist and critical theories have come to the fore.
Student Book Features: China and Iran
China and Iran are two states that will cross many students’ paths. Both nations, for different reasons, are at the centre of important contemporary debates in IR.
Student Book Features: Two Global Politics Textbooks
Global political studies is a multi-faceted discipline encompassing IR, foreign policy, and domestic policy. To new students, it can be bewildering.
Student Book Features: Oxford Handbooks
Having looked at the Handbook of IR last Autumn, our first feature of 2012 weighs in on 3 of its sister volumes on Climate Change, Political Science, and Millennialism.
Student Book Features: 21st Century Issues in IR
The end of the Cold War led to the emergence of several areas of study that were somewhat muted in the era of superpower conflict.
Student Book Features: Two Essential IR Textbooks
Finding a good textbook to see you through your studies is no small matter. Books are not cheap, and a hasty purchase can be an expensive mistake.
