You will spend your second semester at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. This semester provides you with an opportunity to immerse into more specialised knowledge that spans both thematic and country/regional foci, as well as the chance to continue with two languages tuition (subject to language class availability). You will also choose two optional courses to deepen your knowledge of a particular subject matter or region. This semester also provides a non-credited semester-long professional skills development programme that concludes with an employability-focused Summer School.

Optional Courses may include:

• Crime and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union
• De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Space
• Decolonisation Agenda and CEERES
• Energy, Politics and Society in Eurasia
• Europe-Russia Relations since the Collapse of the USSR
• Media and Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
• Post-Soviet Russia: Renegotiating Global and Local Identities
• Rethinking Central Asian Security
• Russia, China and International Politics of Eurasia
• Russian Foreign Policy
• Russian Politics and Society
• Statehood and Nationality in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
• War-making and Peace-making in the Former Soviet Union
• Yugoslavia and after: Themes and Controversies

International Development and Central and Eastern Europe – Babeș-Bolyai University

This study track, hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, focuses on international development, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe.

Core Courses:

• Human Development and Climate Change
• International Political Economy and Development
• Migration, Development, and Transnationalism: Forced Migration, IDPs, and Refugees

Optional Courses may include:

• Local Development
• Conflict Ridden Societies and Development
• any MA level 5 ECTS course within the university taught in English

Corvinus University of Budapest

This study track, hosted by Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary, is only available to current students – future students will be attend on of the other second year institutions.

Core Courses

• Politics of Transition in East Central Europe
• Security Challenges to Central and Eastern Europe

Optional Courses may include:

• Capitalism and Development in Central and Eastern Europe
• Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union
• Climate Ethics
• Comparative Political Economy of Western Europe
• Comparative Politics
• Contemporary Hungarian Politics
• Contemporary Political and Moral Philosophy
• History of Ideas
• Nations, Minorities, and Minority Policies in ECE
• Parliaments in East-Central Europe
• Political Decision-Making
• Political History of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
• Political Ideas of Central and Eastern Europe Foundation
• Political Science Methodology
• Post-Communist Political and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
• Radical Right in Europe
• Social History of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Security Challenges to Central and Eastern Europe
• Theories of Democracy and Leadership

Central and East European Studies – Jagiellonian University

This study track, hosted by Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, focuses on EU studies, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and regional integration processes.

Core Courses:

• European Civilisation
• Thesis Pro-Seminar

Optional Courses may include:

• Challenges to the European Identity: The Rebirth of Nationalisms in Europe
• Culture and Society in Central Europe: Dilemmas of Identity and Pluralism
• Economy of Central Europe: From Transition to EU Membership
• EU Foreign and Security Policy: Europe and Global Challenges
• EU Foreign and Security Policy: Europe, NATO, and Transatlantic Security
• Europe as Normative Power: Central European Perspectives
• European Integration Theory and Practice
• Foreign and International Relations in CEE – Theories Revisited
• Gender, Democracy and Citizenship in CEE
• Political and Social History of CEE in the 20^th Century: From the Turn of Centuries to the End of World War II
• Political and Social History of CEE in the 20^th Century: from World War II to the Collapse of the Communist System
• Religion, Diversity, and Toleration in Central and Eastern Europe
• Security and Democracy in Europe after 1989: a Central European Perspective

South Caucasus History, Politics, and Society – Ilia State University

This study track, hosted by Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, focuses on politics, societal developments, and international relations in the South Caucasus region.

Optional Courses may include:

• Attitudes to “Others” in Georgia
• Citizenship from Below in Post-Soviet Societies
• Democratisation and Political Development in the South Caucasus
• Energy and Economics of Transition in the South Caucasus
• Ethnic Conflicts in Comparative Perspective: Caucasus and Central Asia
• Foreign Policies of the States of the South Caucasus: Comparative Perspective
• Forms and Consequences of Europeanisation in the Caucasus: Introduction to the Concept and its Application
• Gender in the South Caucasus
• Introduction to Mountain Cultures of the Caucasus
• Political History of the Caucasus
• Religion in the South Caucasus
• Remembering the Soviet Past in Georgia: Between Memory and History. An Introduction into Interdisciplinary Memory Studies
• Research Seminar on Stalin and Stalinism
• Security and Geopolitics of the Caucasus
• The History of Soviet Georgia

Greater Central Asia Studies – KIMEP University

This study track, hosted by KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, focuses on politics, societal developments, and international relations in Greater Central Asia.

Optional Courses may include:

• Asian Security: Theory and Practice
• Central Asia – Russia Relations
• Central Asia – United States Relations
• Central Asia in Global Politics
• Computational Social Science
• Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist World
• Emerging Powers and Markets
• Environmental Politics, Development and Global Governance
• European Union: Politics and Foreign Policy
• Genesis of the Modern Concepts of International Relations
• Government and Politics in Central Asia
• Petro Politics
• Political Communication in International Affairs
• Russian Foreign Policy
• Selected Topics in International Relations

Western Balkans and Southeast Europe: Political Science, International Relations, and Diplomacy – University of Sarajevo

This study track, hosted by the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina, focuses on politics, societal developments, and international relations in the Western Balkans and Southeast Europe.

Optional Courses may include:

• Comparative Democratisation and Authoritarianism
• Contemporary Debates in International Relations
• Development Studies
• Economic Diplomacy
• International Conflict Management
• International Negotiation
• International Security
• Nations and Conflicts in the Process of Globalisation
• Religion and Conflicts
• Theories of International Relations
• Theory of Democracy and Human Rights

You will continue on the mobility study track started in semester one. You will complete your dissertation under the principal supervision of the mobility partner institution, with Glasgow and Tartu as co-supervisors. You will also have the opportunity to present your preliminary results at the annual CEERES student conference, which will provide you with valuable peer and faculty feedback.