Internship MA Programme International Relations in Historical Perspective

An internship of at least three months offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge and skills in practice. Keep in mind that international organisations like the EU or the UN, or the Foreign Ministry of your country cannot offer a job to everyone with a MA degree in IR. However, with your skills in gathering reliable sources of information, and using these to write in-depth analyses on a variety of policy issues in an understandable language, you have the right profile to start a career as a policy maker with every organization and agency in the profit and non-profit sector. An internship in the world of international politics is great, but a policy internship with a multinational, a bank, or a consultancy agency can be rewarding and valuable as well. Of course you may also want to test your skills in the world of journalism. And if you opt for an academic career contact applied research agencies like Clingendael, Center for Terrorism and Counter Terrorism and the Insitute of Military History.

Keep in mind that most organisations in the Netherlands use Dutch as their working language. You could consider finding an internship with an international(ly) oriented organization in the Netherlands or abroad (including your home country). You may also be able to do an internship with a research project based at our university, a so-called Applied Research Lab internship. 

Once you have acquired an internship, please contact the MA IRHP Internship Coordinator via MAIRHPInternshipDesk@uu.nl. In your email, include the internship organization/location as well as the start and end dates of the internship so you can be matched with an academic internship supervisor.