- The topic is related to the Politics of Finance, Debt, Investment, or Trade.
- The thesis cannot be purely theoretical — it must have some (either qualitative or quantitative) empirical component.
- Word limit of 10,000 words.
- Students follow these guidelines when writing their thesis:
- How to write a Thesis Proposal
- How to write an Introduction.
- How to write a Literature Review and Theory Section.
- How to write up a Quantitative Analysis.
- How to write up a Qualitative Case Study.
- How to write up an Experiment.
- How to write up a Game Theoretic Model.
For inspiration, here is a selection of possible topics:
- Why were some German industrialists sentenced at Nuremberg trials, but not others?
- Why does authoritarian Cambodia support Ukraine during the Ukraine war, but authoritarian Vietnam does not?
- Why can China take control over some ports (see Sri Lanka), but not others (see Mombasa)?
- Why do some western companies pull out of Russia as a consequence of the Ukraine war, while others do not?
- Why do some countries of the developing world support Western sanctions against Russia, but others do not?