Introduction
The Master in International Relations and European Studies is an interdisciplinary programme that offers an in-depth analysis of the key actors, structures and processes that are shaping global politics. During the first year, the core of the programme introduces major issues and approaches to the study of international politics with a particular focus on the European Union both as an emergent polity and as an actor in a globalized world. The classes are designed to respect a careful balance between the theoretical and practical elements of the two core fields, in order to give the students a wide range of transferable skills essential both at the academic and at the professional level. In the second year the students are asked to write a supervised dissertation that allows them to further research and to apply knowledge and skills to a particular area of interest within the IR or the European Studies fields in line with their career aspirations.
