International Relations

International Relations is one of five research groups at the Department of Political Science. International Relations is a theoretically and methodologically open group recognizing the productivity of diversity. The broad range of individual and collective research projects in the group work with different premises and methodological tool kits. They often cross or question the borders to other political science subfields, or disciplines such as sociology, geography, cultural studies or science and technology studies. Members advance concepts such as securitization, discourse, culture, practice, strategy, or risk. The research investigates political processes at different scales, the local, national, regional and global level with a focus on both public and private organizations. Research is as much interested in Denmark and the Nordic countries, as it is in Europe, other world political regions, including Asia and Africa, and processes and structures at the global level.

Five specialised research centres - each focusing on a specific sub-field, region or thematic - are related to the International Relations research group. Further information on the activities of the centers is available at the respective websites:

• Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST)
• Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC)
• Centre for European Politics (CEP)
• Centre for Military Studies (CMS)
• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)

The International Relations research group meets in different formats. In addition to the activities at center level, the group hosts seminars with international speakers, organises frequent seminars to discuss draft publications, grant applications and preliminary findings, including ‘revise & resubmit’ seminars and the bi-annual research day. Members also meet in thematic discussion groups on themes such as interpretative methodology.

Internal and External PhD fellows are active members of the IR research group and receive additional mentoring, feedback and support through the group activities.

The group frequently hosts international visiting fellows at all career levels through the departmental visiting program and externally funded schemes, such as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions or Erasmus+.

The Department of Political Science offers students three distinct master degrees: The MSc. in Political Science (cand.scient.pol.), the MSc. in Security Risk Management (cand.soc.) and the dual master’degree in Social Studies (cand.soc.). All three degrees are prescribed to 120 ECTS, which corresponds to two years of full-time studies.

Master level students obtaining a degree in Political Science who are interested in international relations can specialise in three fields.

Further information is available here:

• Foreign Policy
• International Relations and Conflict Resolution
• International Political Economy

Further information on the MSc. in Security Risk Management is provided on the program website.