Still time to apply for Fall 2025
The January 15th priority deadline has passed, but there's still time to apply for a PGE graduate degree program to start in the Fall 2025! Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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PGE partnered with the Balsillie School of International Affairs to host "Tariffs and Trade in the Wake of a New Trump Administration", a webinar featuring PGE Professor Bob Koopman听to discuss Trump's trade threats. Missed the webinar? Watch the .
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PGE Professor Sarah Khan was听a guest on BBC Urdu's coverage of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration. She provided on the domestic and international political implications of a Trump Presidency, including for Pakistan.
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In December, SIS undergrads joined PGE Department Chair Carl LeVan at the White House for a mentorship seminar on "Careers in International Relations" for minority students.
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International organizations are increasingly being asked to work with other actors, but little is known about how these relationships work. PGE professor Tamar Gutner , with Rasmus Heltberg, about how to better design and evaluate them.
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PGE Professor Jennifer Poole has collaborated with colleagues associated with Brazil鈥檚 recent Presidency of the G20 to write a policy brief on investment facilitation for development.
Our Programs
The graduate programs and undergraduate thematic areas of听the听Department of Politics, Governance, and Economics听prepare students with the knowledge and data analysis skills to resolve international, regional, and local issues spanning听politics and state building,听economics,听and humanitarian assistance.听
Master's degrees
MA in Global Governance, Politics, and Security
The Global Governance, Politics, and Security program takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding relations among states and societies. Our students are dedicated to evidence-based policy and acquire foundations in politics and economics before specializing in one of four professional tracks: global security; multilateral diplomacy and global governance; international economic policy; and states, society, and politics. Our graduates find careers in multilateral organizations, government agencies, the private sector, and NGOs.
MA in Global Governance, Politics, and Security: Quantitative Economic Methods
The Global Governance, Politics, and Security: Quantitative Economic Methods (GGPS:QEM) STEM听degree provides a focused education in quantitative methods and applied economics essential for students of global security, multilateral diplomacy, political economy, and economic development. Our graduates are well-positioned to shape policy with data-driven, effective solutions at ojbs in government affairs, multilateral organizations, and international business. The STEM designation enables international students to apply for a 24-month extension of Optional Practical Training (OPT), granting them the ability to work in the US for up to three years in their major field of study.
Undergraduate thematic areas
Global and Comparative Governance
The Global and Comparative Governance Thematic Area is designed for students who are interested in how a range of actors鈥攍ocal, national, global鈥攕eek to understand and solve the compelling security, development, environmental, and economic problems of our time. This thematic area focuses on the role that states, regional and global institutions (the United Nations, EU, World Bank, etc.), civil society, and the private sector play in addressing regional and global problems. Students also have the option of specializing in a geographical region.听Students will take a multidisciplinary approach and will acquire the skills to empirically evaluate phenomena, anticipate emerging trends, and interpret data through an innovative curriculum that emphasizes theory and applied knowledge.
Gateway Course
SISU 280 Ruling the World: Global and Comparative Governance (multiple sections available)
Thematic Area Courses
*Course offerings vary by semester. Alternative and/or additional options may be available.
- SISU 329听Global Economic Governance
- SISU 380听Empire and Imperialism
- SISU 380听International Law
- SISU 380 Conquest, Cold War, Globalization听
- SISU 386 Contemporary Africa
The Global Economy
A more integrated world has raised the living standards of millions of people, yet it is blamed for causing all sorts of damages to societies, the environment, national cultures, and domestic sovereignty. In the Global Economy Thematic Area, students will study the political economy of this evolving international landscape and analyze economic growth, winners and losers, and the legitimacy of these changes. They explore how globalization changes the world and alters the political, economic, and social prospects of nations and their citizens. They also consider how international organizations struggle to manage this complex process and create governance structures to adapt to these changes, and how national governments attempt to balance their sovereign mandate to govern and protect their people with the frequently disrupting financial and trade-related impacts of global competition.
Gateway Course
SISU 220 International Political Economy (multiple sections available)
Thematic Area Courses
*Course offerings vary by semester. Alternative and/or additional options may be available.
- SISU 320 International Money and Finance
- SISU 320 International Trade Relations
- SISU 321 Political Economy of Africa
- SISU 324 Breakfast in the Americas
- SISU 324 Political Economy of Latin America
- SISU 329听Global Economic Governance