WHY STUDY INTERNATIONAL HISTORY and Politics?
The short answer is: to receive a rigorous all-round education and launch your professional career.
You will study today’s global and international affairs and new diplomacies in their historical context; obtain world-regional expertise; and acquire vital practice-related skills. You will do so in International Geneva, home to dozens of international organisations—while benefiting from an unbeatable professor-student ratio of 1:4 (MA; 2024).
A Dynamic Study Plan
Practice, depth, breadth: these are the three fundamental traits of your IHP degree.
Practice, because we offer a suit of courses that teach you skills—skills vital to any professional career, from NGOs and IOs to Government and Business. These courses cover digital humanities, interviewing and oral history, public history, and policy making.
Depth, because the historical perspectives we teach allow you to better analyze today’s complex global and international affairs. After all our world, though dynamic, is profoundly rooted in the modern past. Depth, too, because historical sources such as texts, interviews, and images are unfailingly complex, allowing us to unpack our world’s manifold realities—to dig deep.
Breadth, for three reasons. We offer an extraordinary range of both world regional courses—called China, MENA, Russia, Europe, USA, Africa and the Indo-Pacific in the World—and thematic courses including the global and international history of politics, diplomacy, conflict and security, environment, health, commerce and finance, humanitarianism, development, and culture.
What’s more, you can take courses also in Law, Economy, Political Science & IR, and Anthropology&Sociology.
And the cherry on top: you can be selected to study at one of 43 IHEID-wide exchange partner institutions on all continents.
