London School of Economics

This course places social media, fake news, and artificial intelligence at the heart of debates on political dysfunction and instability. Students explore how populist leaders use communication strategies, how global powers deploy public diplomacy to advance their interests, and the role of communication and propaganda in modern warfare. Through diverse theoretical approaches and global case studies, students critically examine how media shapes political power, cultural narratives, and globalization. The course also investigates how popular culture – films, TV and video games – reflects and influences political moments, offering new insights into contemporary crises. 

This course is designed to give students the critical thinking skills to assess these audiences and markets from both an economic and psychological perspective, giving students the tools to implement effective marketing strategies. Using real-world case studies, students understand how marketing intersects with other business functions to create customer and shareholder value. Through active discussion with faculty and peers students understand the key concepts and theories of marketing that enable effective market analysis - a critical element of managerial decision-making.

This course provides a broad, up-to-date introduction to the economic analysis of public policy issues. Drawing on microeconomic theory, the course focuses on the development of analytical tools and their application to key policy issues relating to the spending, taxing, and financing activities of Government. Particular emphasis is given to recent developments in public economics, including findings from current research, in areas such as behavioral public economics, new empirical methods, and policy innovations.

This course offers a dynamic and comprehensive introduction to the systems and politics of global health in low and middle-income countries. Students examine critical challenges, including pandemics, ageing populations, pharmaceutical innovation, and the climate crisis, alongside the key determinants of health and their consequences for development. Students explore policies designed to improve health and development, the barriers to their implementation, and practical strategies to overcome these obstacles. Topics include global health governance, universal health coverage, health system strengthening, and the politics of disease burdens. The course also considers the impacts of migration, conflict, and climate change on health.

This course offers an introduction to corporate law and to the legal and non-legal governance mechanisms which encourage directors to act in their company's and not in their own interests. The course sets corporate law and governance within its economic and business context, with particular regard to how corporate law and governance mechanisms facilitate or inhibit economic activity. The course adopts an explicitly comparative approach drawing on both UK, US, and continental European law.

This course examines the key concepts and schools of thought in the study of foreign policy. Concentrating on the process of decision making, internal and external factors which influence foreign policy, and the instruments available to foreign policy decision makers, the course provides students with an understanding of the role and effect that foreign policy has on international politics.