This is the core module for the MSc International Public Policy (IPP). The module provides a conceptual overview and empirical illustrations intended to help students understand and analyze the key challenges, actors, and institutions of contemporary international public policy. Students learn how to think critically and analytically about topics in global governance, how to conceptualize problems, how to think through the incentives and constraints of policymakers, and the potential for and limitations of collective action and institutions. We cover these foundations in the first part of the course and then spend the second part of the course discussing specific issue areas. Students develop an understanding of major current and past policy debates in various areas of international governance, including international security, international trade, development, human rights and democracy, and the environment.
