In the very near future more than half of new jobs in the US will be connected to the global economy. In the EU, emerging jobs opportunities are increasingly attached to international markets and political alliances. In developing regions, most new jobs will be linked to foreign investment, global commerce, international negotiation, the environment, and multinational corporations. Worldwide, conflict resolution and security affect business, states, NGOs, and private citizens.
Our PROFESSIONAL master degree provides the necessary skills and abilities to successfully compete in these new job markets. Our Master Program is taught fully in English by a diverse international team of scholars and practitioners from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
What does A Lifelong Learning Degree mean? It is the name that universities in the European Union are now going to adopt to refer to their own programs, that is, those PROFESSIONAL DEGREES that they themselves certify. This allows greater flexibility in terms of incorporating international students and faculty. For more information, you may want to check out the link to the European Consortium (https://ec2u.eu/).
Our Master in Global and International Studies offers Four Different Tracks of specialization: 1) Nationalism and Conflict Management, 2)Migration, Environment and Climate Change, 3) Negotiation and Business, and 4) Global Security.
Views of experts on our Global and International Studies Program
U.S Ambassador
Mark Asquino
(Retired Ambassador)
Professor
Peter Kuznick
(American University)
Professor
Farzeen Nasri
(Ventura College, California)
Professor
Fernando López-Alves
(University of California)
Interview with
Melody Johnson
Graduate Program Advisor and Registrar
Global Business and Negotiation
The Master in Global and International Studies with a concentration in Business and Negotiation will provide students with a unique opportunity to combine a business education and training in international negotiation with political and economic coursework, research, and cross-cultural proficiencies.
Nationalism and Conflict Management
The transformation of warfare and organized violence, combined with highly debated understandings of the roles of ethnicity and nationalism in intra- and international conflicts, require a fresh perspective. This masters focuses on the intersections of conflict, conflict management, and identity politics.
Global Security and Intelligence
Overall titled: ‘Understanding & Managing Global Security & Intelligence’, in a topical and timely manner, this international Masters advances those significant goals in at least a foundational and introductory manner. Ranging from the general to the more specific and specialist, it covers relevant global security and intelligence institutions and the contemporary challenges that are confronted during an overall era of globalised strategic risk, including examining, inter alia, counter-terrorism after 11 September 2001 (9/11) and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) non-/counter-proliferation in Iraq and beyond, extending to providing several lessons into the professional conduct of intelligence analysis and assessment work in the contemporary 21st Century.
Migration, Environment, and Climate Change
The phenomenon of human displacement due to environmental and climate degradation requires holistic responses that involve different areas of government. It is imperative to profoundly understand the root causes of forced displacement, whether it is poverty and inequality, climate change, governance problems or violent conflict, and to make progress in articulating concrete measures to address the situation of groups affected by these situations
Global and International Studies 