MSc Global Development (Globalisation, Trade and Industry)

MSc Global Development (Globalisation, Trade and Industry) offers an in-depth exploration of the dynamic and interrelated forces shaping industrial development, international trade policies, and globalisation. By combining theoretical frameworks with practical applications, this course teaches students to understand and influence the global economic transformations that define today’s world. This course delves into the changing dynamics of cross-border trade, finance, and labour that are redefining the relationships between countries. By drawing from economics, sociology, political science, and international business, the course offers a comprehensive understanding of globalisation's development consequences. You will: gain critical insights into different theoretical and inter-disciplinary perspectives on the political economy of globalisation, trade policy dynamics, and industrial development within the wider context of global development strategies; develop your analytical skills in critically evaluating and engaging with distinct and cutting-edge theoretical frameworks that help shape understanding of global value chains and global production networks and their implications for trade dynamics, industrial and trade policies, firm strategies and labour, social and environmental outcomes; gain an understanding of the relationship of globalisation to economic, political and social asymmetries of development at global, regional, national and local scales; gain an appreciation of the policy issues associated with globalisation, trade and industry and their impacts including insights into the key strategies, policies and practices currently employed by leading public and private policy actors in the global South, prominent international agencies as well as private sector and civil society actors.