New Environmental Governance Master's Program

The new, one-year MSc Political Science (Global Environmental Governance) at the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) of Amsterdam offers a unique combination of broad training in political science with intense specialised lectures and seminars on global environmental governance. In the first part of the programme, students will get a solid foundation in political theory, methods of political science, and international relations. In the second part, they will specialise in global environmental governance, with emphasis on the new actors, mechanisms and interlinkages in this important field of international relations. Students will finalise their studies with an MSc thesis, which may be written in conjunction with the many large-scale international research projects already underway at the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University Amsterdam. Students in this new MSc programme can rely on the department's extensive international networks, such as the Europe-wide Global Governance Project and the worldwide Earth System Governance Project. The new MSc programme is demanding in its combination of a disciplinary focus on political science within a multidisciplinary field of study. It unites challenging academic work with the search for practical solutions and policy reform. It is targeted at students with both academic and practical career objectives, and it is decidedly international in approach. The new MSc Political Science (Global Environmental Governance) requires a BSc degree or equivalent in a social science. The programme is taught in English. Click here for more information. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2009 for non-European students, and 1 April for students from Europe.