Masters in International Studies

You are interested in international news and its history and you want to learn more about governance mechanisms, policies, regulations, actors, institutions, organizations, cultures, sociological practices, as well as spaces and the places of power at the heart of world politics? Benefit from interdisciplinary training coupled with scientific and academic activities reflecting the major political and social trends of the day in a learning context enriched by regional diversity and by the horizons opened by the intersection of students' disciplinary backgrounds in their socializing and networking experience. The master's program emphasizes the acquisition of analytical and synthesis skills allowing you to better understand the complex dynamics of international relationships and exchanges.

The originality of the international studies programs at UdeM lies above all in an interdisciplinary approach to the international with training which is not simply concentrated on international relations in the political and historical sense of the term, but which is also based on culturalist, geographical, legal, sociological, media and communication, literary and economic approaches.  

The program prepares you to evolve in the areas of international business management:

• Global governance and power in global politics
• International governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions
• Diplomacy
• Mobility and international migration
• Transnational dynamics and social movements 
• International cooperation and development
• International communication
• International legal aspects and the role of law in international affairs
• International political economy and international finance
• Questions of borders, territories and spaces 
• International justice
• Digital governance
• The global history of science and technology