Ideal student profile
Graduates in Social Sciences (Law, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, History, Journalism), Humanities (Translation and Interpreting), Environmental Sciences and/or with professional experience in related areas.
Knowledge
- To independently propose constructive ideas in projects related to international relations, security and development.
- Identify (or make note of) social and ethical responsibilities when carrying out research in the area of international relations, security and development.
- To identify the most appropriate methods and tools for analysing international activity.
- To use relevant scientific literature to formulate and contextualise a research topic, demonstrating a command of specialised documentary and bibliographic resources on matters of international relations.
- To systematically describe the processes of cooperation and conflict at the international level.
- To recognise security, development, peacebuilding and cooperation for development policies and strategies in relations between two or more international actors.
Skills
- To design appropriate intervention strategies for handling complex and multidimensional issues in the field of international relations, security and development, with consideration for the specific contexts, the actors involved and the resources available.
- To use appropriate methodologies in a research project that contribute to the formulation of hypotheses and judgements within the field of international relations, security and development.
- To communicate the results and conclusions of your work and the knowledge and arguments supporting these conclusions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both orally and in writing.
- To critically and synthetically analyse information obtained from databases and other sources to resolve problems and complex situations related to the field of international relations, security and development.
- To diagnose the main security issues in the field of development in countries, regions or sectors within the international system, generating useful guidelines for effective decision making.
- To apply the methodological instruments necessary for systematically and rigorously analysing international relations (observation, comparison, formulation of hypotheses, etc.).
- To assess the application of intervention tools (policymaking, strategy development, planning, negotiation and mediation techniques, etc.) in managing interdependencies and their suitability for local and international contexts.
- To critically analyse the political systems and social structures of a particular country or region.