Programme Overview
Quick facts about the programme:
- Full-time
- 2 years
- 120 ECTS
- English-taught
- State-accredited master’s degree
- European Credit Transfer
Three tracks:
- Issues of the Eurasian Countries Development.
- International Politics of Eurasian Countries.
- Advanced theory and methods training (pre-PhD)
The Master’s programme 'Politics and Global Governance in Eurasia' at HSE — St. Petersburg is a response to the growing strategic importance of the wider Eurasian space, including the former Soviet Union, as well as the associated need for both national and international expertise in the comparative politics and IR of this region. The programme provides for discipline-based professional training in comparative politics and International Relations towards the Eurasian region. The programme curriculum has been developed around a core conceptual training in comparative political science, area studies as well as IR. Alongside this core learning, the programme offers an exciting range of courses that cover politics and society in contemporary Russia, the social and political transformations of Central Asia and the Caucasus, political economy of post-communist development, and international relations in the region. Courses are taught by professors from HSE — St. Petersburg and by invited scholars from partner universities.
The programme strikes a right balance between lectures and seminars focused on discussions of the state-of-theart in the field. It also involves practical training related to one of the programme tracks. HSE — St. Petersburg hosts a number of interdisciplinary research centres, including the Centre for comparative governance studies, ongoing projects and interdisciplinary seminars.
The programme provides all necessary assistance for identifying research, fieldwork and practice-oriented internship placements (with a limited number of meritbased travel grants). Among them are independent research centres, NGOs, international organisations, local governments and federal government structures, and state and private companies. The programme assists students in finding and securing study abroad opportunities within the broad network of HSE partner universities.
The rigorous conceptual and methodological design of the programme means that it is accessible to good students from all academic backgrounds and with different professional experiences. Through the programme, students will gain not only the knowledge, but also the methodological expertise and the professional sophistication to successfully pursue careers in the public or private sector; including academia, think tanks, risk and business consultancies, political consultancy, the government and international organisations, NGOs, the media and journalism, and diplomacy.
