Bachelor's in International Relations

The University of Gothenburg is a public research university located in Gothenburg, the second-largest city in Sweden. It was founded in 1891 and has since grown to become one of the largest universities in the country, with over 38,000 students and 6,000 staff members.

Global contexts, processes and institutions are playing a more important role in working life as a whole and for people's everyday lives. In our globalized world, international relations are reshaped and power relations are complex and shifting, and the demand for professionals with knowledge of global issues and competence to analyse international events have increased. The Bachelor's Programme in International Relations give you skills to analyse, investigate and evaluate issues related to international conflicts and collaborations. You get to know different theoretical perspectives and how they bring varied understandings and analysis. The programme gives you specific knowledge on: war, conflict and security; peacebuilding; global political economy; interventions in order to end armed conflict; migration and sustainability; structure of the international system; complex and shifting power relations; multilateral organizations and world regions; political theory originating in different schools of thought as well as in different world regions; and the impact of climate change as well as new technologies on international relations.