Brussels School of International Studies

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The Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS), was founded in 1998 by the University of Kent at Canterbury. The intellectual creator of the School is Professor AJR Groom, a senior and highly respected academic in the field of International Relations. Under the stewardship of the founding Director, Dr Jarrod Wiener (now Dick), the School expanded rapidly in a short time to become a campus of Kent, now known as the University of Kent at Brussels. The School now offers graduate degrees from numerous Departments of the University, including the Department of Politics and International Relations, The Kent Law School, and the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research. Current degrees offered are:

MA in European Public Policy
MA in International Relations
MA in International Conflict Analysis
MA in International Political Economy
MA in Migration Studies
MA in Political Strategy and Communication
LLM in International Economic Law
LLM in International Law and International Relations
LLM in Public International Law
MPhil/PhD in International Relations

As the name suggests, it is located in Brussels, Belgium.

The School operates in partnership with both the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the students have no access to three University campuses.

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The Founding Convenor of the International Conflict Analysis programme at BSIS was Professor Dr Christopher Daase, who held that post from 2000 to 2003, leaving when he became full Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was succeeded by Professor AJR Groom.

Professor Wade Mansell led the creation of Law programmes at BSIS, and Dr Harm Schepel became the first member of the Kent Law School to be seconded to BSIS in 2002, whereupon he launched the LLM in International Economic Law.

Dr Geoffrey Pigman was founding Convenor of the International Political Economy programme in 2003-2004. He was succeeded by Dr Albena Azmanova, an internationally recognised political theorist, who launched the MA in European Public Policy.