Political Science - Specialisation International Relations and Transnational Governance-Uni

Abschluss: Master

Dauer: 1 Jahr

Politics in the age of Europeanization and globalization confronts us with increasingly porous boundaries between the national and the international, between the public and the private, and between the state and the market.

Political activity now takes place in an increasingly transnational context. The roles played by transnational corporations (TNCs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like Greenpeace, international organizations like the World Bank, and criminal or clandestine networks, embody this trend.

The transnationalization of economic, social and political issues – including financial markets, migration, human rights, internationally organized (and/or politically motivated) crime, and climate change – is reflected more and more in the emergence of new institutional forms of regulation.

Global as well as European governance have been deepening. At the same time, and in the context of ongoing globalization, the new millennium has also witnessed new forms of conflict as well as the apparent resurgence of interstate rivalry and geopolitics, such as can be witnessed by the new arms race and in the increasing contestation over natural resources. Seeking to understand this contradictory and conflicting dynamics of ongoing globalization – and the way it cuts across the boundaries of national, European and international politics – is what lies at the heart of the Political Science Master’s programme: specialization IR and Transnational Governance.

Link: International Relations & Transnational Governance

Contact:
International Office
Faculty of Social Sciences
VU University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081
NL - 1081HV Amsterdam

Victoria Burgers
Telephone: +31 (0)20 598 8636
E-mail: international@fsw.vu.nl

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