The Master of Arts and Doctoral Programs in International Relations offer a multidisciplinary, rigorous approach to the study of continuity and change in global affairs, with particular strength in the areas of Caribbean and Latin American regional studies, constructivist and postmodern theories of international relations, and the international politics of place and identity. These programs are relatively new and are growing rapidly along with the Department, which now consists of about 20 fulltime faculty and 50 graduate students.

Members of the Department represent many disciplines and perspectives. Faculty interests range broadly from the "high politics" of foreign policy and national security to contemporary transnational issues such as democratization, the environment, human rights, refugees, and social movements. In addition to its strength in regional research on the Caribbean and Latin America, the Department also contains specialists on Africa, Central and East Asia, the Middle East, and the former Soviet republics. The Department is committed to an interdisciplinary understanding of the field and to close working relations with the Departments of Economics, Environmental Studies, History, Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology, and with the School of International Studies at the University of Miami.