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Browse our politics modules to explore power, governance, public policy and global issues. Develop insight into how political decisions shape society and change.
You and your world: introducing the social sciences (D112)
OU level 1
Exploring international relations: actors, issues, perspectives (D228)
OU level 2
Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world (DD211)
OU level 2
Environmental policy in an international context (DD319)
