Politics and International Studies at ICE

There are few more topical, exciting, and fast-changing fields of academic study than politics and international studies. Building on Cambridge's reputation for excellence and tradition of teaching in these areas, ICE offers an array of courses that cover a very wide range of issues from the local to the international and from international law or diplomacy to the theory and practice of democracy.

People

Dr Mike Sewell

mike_sewell_100pxI am University Lecturer and ICE's Academic Director in History and International Relations. I am co-Director of the MSt in International Relations, in which I teach the International History course. My research interests lie primarily in the history of US foreign relations and I have published a book called The Cold War (CUP, 2002).

Find out more about my teaching and research interests

Please contact me on mjs1001@cam.ac.uk with any questions about history at ICE.

Politics and International Studies tutors

Politics and international studies courses at ICE are taught by tutors whose work spans a wide range of areas. Our current tutors’ interests include (to take a few examples) British defence policy, nuclear history, security studies, history of Russian political emigration to Britain, economic history and intelligence history and practice.

Current courses

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Title Start Date Status
The inter-war years: 1918-193924 May 2013 Available
From Gettysburg to Birmingham: the African-American freedom struggle, 1863–196331 May 2013 Available
Divided cities: fractured pasts, walls and buffer zones14 June 2013 Available
IARU Global Summer Programme7 July 2013 Available
Interdisciplinary Summer School Term I8 July 2013 Available
International politics in a global age8 July 2013 Available
A history of British political thought, from 1651 to the present8 July 2013 Available
Britain and the world since 19008 July 2013 Available
International politics in a global age8 July 2013 Available
Crises in world politics since 19458 July 2013 Available
International politics in a global age8 July 2013 Available
European economic integration – or disintegration?8 July 2013 Available
British politics today: problems and solutions8 July 2013 Available
Ending the great wars: justice and conciliation19 July 2013 Available
Power and politics in Britain today4 August 2013 Available
Economics of public policy4 August 2013 Available
Two films about Stalin's USSR: 1930s propaganda versus 1990s post-socialist realism16 August 2013 Available
MSt in International Relations16 September 2013 Available
An introduction to international development: understanding contemporary issues and themes16 September 2013 Available
Globalization: curse or blessing?4 October 2013 Available
Undergraduate Certificate in International Development II4 October 2013 Available
Reading the 'Woman Question': female emancipation from George Eliot to the suffragettes25 October 2013 Available
Faith and empire: the shaping of religions and states in ancient Asia25 October 2013 Available
A marriage Italian-style: Italian society and its cinema8 November 2013 Available
JFK: image and reality15 November 2013 Available
Anglo-Scottish relations in the 16th century15 November 2013 Available
The rising powers and development: how are Brazil, China and India affecting global poverty and progress?22 November 2013 Available
Dial M for Murdoch, press B for Beaverbrook: the rise and fall of the press baron22 November 2013 Available
Parliamentary reform during the 18th and 19th centuries22 November 2013 Available