European Politics and Area Studies

European Politics and Area Studies from Cardiff University, is a research area within which you can focus your studies as part of our suite of Politics and International Relations research programmes (MPhil, PhD).

The Department of Politics and International Relations has an exceptionally strong research culture with a strong reputation for the quality of the research produced and the growing number of research grants it is attracting.

Key Facts

The European Politics and Area Studies programme from Cardiff University offers supervision across a wide range of research topics.

The Department is also home a thriving postgraduate community. We are home to the Wales Governance Centre and to the European Governance, Identity and Public Policy Research Unit, attracting visiting scholars from all over Europe and the world.

Research topics include:

• Comparative politics

• European politics

• EU institutions

• EU politices

• European political economy

• The Euro Area

• European social model and policies

• European public policies