Department of Government and International Relations
The Department of Government and International Relations is a large and active group of students, teachers, and researchers covering most aspects of government and politics. It is a comprehensive department of political science.
Its work reflects current developments and activities in the ever changing world of politics, but it offers in-depth perspectives that go to the enduring structures that determine the day-to-day reality of government, politics, and international relations. Politics is always local and it is never local. That is the paradox that political science unpacks. Everything arises in a local context and everything has implications that go beyond the local in time or in space. Terrorism, globalization, voting and elections, environmentalism, immigration, defence, ethics, leadership, power, prime ministers, gender, human rights, political parties, the rise of China, these are only some of the specifics analysed in the Department. At the same time, the Department does not lose sight of the fundamentals and so Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Niccolo Machiavelli, Harriet Taylor, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, and many other enduring thinkers also play a part in teaching and research.
In 1910 the University first recognized political science and it has been offered continuously since then. When students join us today they are also joining the thousand of alumni who have majored in Government and International Relations, done Honours in Government and International Relations, or a post graduate degree in either a professional or research masters, or a PhD.
We prepare students for life, not just the first job!
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