Through engaged teaching and innovative research, Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton explores and evaluates the events, theories, systems and policies that shape contemporary politics on a local and global scale. As a student of politics and international relations, you'll learn to never take the answer that's given as the only response.

Our inspiring and diverse programmes will enable you to critically analyse how we are governed, the processes of rule and resistance, power and protest, which all shape political decision-making, whether it is in the UK or abroad. You will become equipped with the knowledge and skills to understand and interrogate how different systems of government and styles of policy-making shape our lives and the ideas and ideologies that animate them. You will ask thought-provoking questions, understand and evaluate evidence, and make informed, fair, and clever decisions.