The MA IRSS programme intends to provide academic-practitioners perspective on international relations and global security to provide the students with a thorough understanding of international affairs, security challenges and India’s strategic interests. The programme integrates foundational theories with contemporary global development, fostering critical thinking and analysis with practical expertise essential for careers in policy making, diplomacy, security and strategic community. The MA in IRSS progamme includes structural activities for students such as discussions, seminars, workshop and conference for ensuring a comprehensive and experiential learning environment. In addition, students will undergo internship at leading strategic, defence, security think-tanks, and industries thereby equipping them to understand international relations and security studies.
Understand core international relations theories, methodologies, and perspectives.
Develop research capabilities to investigate complex international political, economic, and security challenges.
Identify and analyse strategic developments in multilateralism, regionalism, and global governance.
Cultivate multicultural competence and critical insights into global cooperation and conflict.
Pursue careers in diplomacy, international organisations, policy, academia, and related fields.
Familiarity with evolving global challenges through continuous learning and ethical leadership.
Disciplinary Knowledge: Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge in understanding International Relations and Strategic Studies.
Reasoning: Analyse, interpret and draw conclusions from evidence and experiences from an open-minded and reasoned perspective.
Problem solving: Extrapolate and apply their competencies to solve different kinds of non- familiar problems and apply one’s learning to real life situations using curriculum content knowledge.
Environment and Sustainability: Understand the issues of environmental contexts and sustainable development.
Research-related skills: Recognise cause-and-effect relationships, define problems, formulate hypotheses, test hypotheses, analyse, interpret and draw conclusions from data, establish hypotheses, predict cause-and-effect relationships, ability to plan, execute and report the results of an experiment or investigation.
Ethics: Recognize different value systems including own understanding of the moral dimensions of decisions, and accept responsibility for them.
Cooperation/Team work: Work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams; facilitate cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group, and act together as a group or a team in the interests of a common cause and work efficiently as a member of a team.
Strategic Communication Skills: Express thoughts and ideas effectively in writing and orally; communicate with others using appropriate media; confidently share one’s views and express herself/himself; demonstrate the ability to listen carefully, read and write analytically, and present complex information in a clear and concise manner to different groups.
Self-directed and Life-long Learning: Acquire the ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of socio-technological changes.
Global and Multicultural Perspectives: Establish awareness and understanding of global issues, diverse cultures, and international systems; appreciate cultural diversity and develop sensitivity to social, economic, and political issues affecting regional and global peace and security.
Leadership and Initiative: Display leadership qualities and the ability to take informed and ethical initiative in academic, professional, and policy making, contribute effectively to nation building and global peace efforts through proactive engagement and responsible citizenship.
Policy Analysis and Advocacy: Determine the ability to critically evaluate, formulate and advocate public policies in the domain of international relations and security; understand the policy-making process, engage in policy debates, and contribute constructively to discussions on national and international security strategies.
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: Apply theoretical and practical knowledge to analyse conflicts, understand root causes, and contribute to peacebuilding efforts; promote negotiation, mediation, and dialogue as strategies to support sustainable conflict resolution at local, national and international level.
