The program in Political Economy offers bolder challenges than mainstream business economics, but better career opportunities than a traditional social science education. The program focuses on phenomena and processes in the boundary areas between politics and economics, both in a national and in an international context. All organizations and economies as a whole rely on government relations. Understanding government is an important asset for the business sector as well as non-profit organizations.

Programme focusThe MSc program in Political Economy offers students a theoretical, empirical and practical education, and is organized aroud four core issues: - The global impetus: The challenge of supranational institutions and international competition to national policy-making. - The welfare state: The challenge of demographic changes and changing attitudes to work-participation. - The service state: The challenge of New Public Management to government service provision. - The regulatory state: The combined challenges of serious ecological degradation and intensified global market competition....

The International Masters in Economy, State and Society (IMESS) with reference to Central and Eastern Europe is a graduate programme offered by a consortium of leading European universities. It is an intensive integrated study programme, with the first year spent at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and the second at the University of Helsinki, Finland or at one of the other partner universities in Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Poland. The main objective of the programme is to enhance global understanding and awareness of the wider European region. As well as developing cultural and linguistic knowledge of both Eastern and Western Europe, you acquire skills to identify and critically analyse key factors shaping the economies, states and societies of the expanding European region and to formulate appropriate and effective policy responses....