Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science - International Relations

McMaster University

McMaster has nine full time faculty members who specialize in teaching and conducting research in international relations. Our PhD International Relations program’s strengths are in the fields of:Canadian Foreign PolicyCritical International Relations TheoryCritical Security StudiesGlobal GovernanceGlobal Political EconomyPolitics of the Global SouthMcMaster’s PhD is one of the strongest critical international relations programs in the country. Critical IR approaches reveal the unequal power relations of world order and seek to challenge those conditions. We draw on a wide variety of theoretical traditions including constructivist, ecological, feminist, historical materialist, post-colonial and post-structural approaches.Faculty members have overlapping interests in alternative diplomacies, citizenship studies and transnational social movements, climate change, international political economy, international relations theory, global governance, post-colonialism and politics of the global south. PhD students are encouraged to take advantage of the activities of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, as well as our annual student focused Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy conference.