Subjects 03 Individuals and societiesIB diploma course · Standard level
Global Politics SL. The whole course, unit by unit. Open each lesson for explanations, practice, review and exam-ready resources.
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Skills and inquiry in global politics
1. Core: understanding power and global politics
2. Thematic study: rights and justice
3. Thematic study: development and sustainability
4. Thematic study: peace and conflict
All 01 Assessment02 Skills and inquiry in global politics03 1. Core: understanding power and global politics04 2. Thematic study: rights and justice05 3. Thematic study: development and sustainability06 4. Thematic study: peace and conflict
01 Assessment 5 lessons · 5 units
Unit 01
Paper 1 strategy: source-based questions 0 /1
Unit 02
Paper 2 strategy: thematic and integrating essays 0 /1
Unit 03
The engagement project: planning and engaging 0 /1
Unit 04
The engagement project: the report and its criteria 0 /1
Unit 05
Command terms and assessment objectives 0 /1
02 Skills and inquiry in global politics 4 lessons · 4 units
Unit 01
Building and using case studies 0 /1
Unit 02
How the course fits together: concepts, content, contexts and inquiry 0 /1
Unit 03
Working with sources: origin, purpose, value and limitations 0 /1
Unit 04
Working with the four key concepts 0 /1
03 1. Core: understanding power and global politics 18 lessons · 18 units
Unit 01
1.1a Framing global politics: what makes an issue political 0 /1
Unit 02
1.1b Actors, stakeholders and levels of analysis 0 /1
Unit 03
1.1c Political systems and how authority is organized 0 /1
Unit 04
1.2a What is power? Faces, forms and measurement 0 /1
Unit 05
1.2b Hard, soft, smart and structural power 0 /1
Unit 06
1.2c Polarity, hegemony and shifting global power 0 /1
Unit 07
1.2d The power of non-state actors 0 /1
Unit 08
1.3a Sovereignty: origins, recognition and the Westphalian model 0 /1
Unit 09
1.3b Contesting sovereignty: intervention, R2P and supranational bodies 0 /1
Unit 10
1.3c Self-determination, statehood and contested states 0 /1
Unit 11
1.4a Legitimacy, authority and consent 0 /1
Unit 12
1.4b Legitimacy of political systems: democracy, authoritarianism and hybrid regimes 0 /1
Unit 13
1.4c Legitimacy in global governance and international law 0 /1
Unit 14
1.5a Interdependence, globalization and complex interdependence 0 /1
Unit 15
1.5b Global governance, collective action and the uneven effects of interdependence 0 /1
Unit 16
1.6a Mainstream theoretical perspectives: realism and liberalism 0 /1
Unit 17
1.6b Critical perspectives: Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, constructivism and green theory 0 /1
Unit 18
1.6c Applying theories and models: usefulness, bias and limitations 0 /1
04 2. Thematic study: rights and justice 9 lessons · 9 units
Unit 01
2.1a Rights: contested meanings and foundations 0 /1
Unit 02
2.1b Codifying rights: the UDHR, covenants and generations of rights 0 /1
Unit 03
2.1c Protecting, monitoring and enforcing rights 0 /1
Unit 04
2.2 Debating rights: universality, cultural relativism and violence against women 0 /1
Unit 05
2.3a Justice: distributive, retributive and restorative 0 /1
Unit 06
2.3b Equality, discrimination and struggles for social justice 0 /1
Unit 07
2.3c International criminal justice and transitional justice 0 /1
Unit 08
2.4 Case study skills: investigating human rights violations 0 /1
Unit 09
2.5 The future of rights and justice 0 /1
05 3. Thematic study: development and sustainability 9 lessons · 9 units
Unit 01
3.1a Contested concepts: development, poverty and inequality 0 /1
Unit 02
3.1b Measuring development and wellbeing 0 /1
Unit 03
3.1c Sustainability, planetary limits and the SDGs 0 /1
Unit 04
3.2a Globalization: economic, political and cultural dimensions 0 /1
Unit 05
3.2b Global economic governance: trade, debt and finance 0 /1
Unit 06
3.3a Pathways: aid, investment, industrial policy and technology 0 /1
Unit 07
3.3b Barriers: governance, conflict, debt distress and climate vulnerability 0 /1
Unit 08
3.3c Sustainable pathways: climate governance and just transitions 0 /1
Unit 09
3.4 Our global future: contested visions of development and sustainability 0 /1
06 4. Thematic study: peace and conflict 9 lessons · 9 units
Unit 01
4.1a Violence: direct, structural and cultural 0 /1
Unit 02
4.1b Contested forms of violence: terrorism, state violence and armed groups 0 /1
Unit 03
4.2a Causes and dynamics of conflict 0 /1
Unit 04
4.2b Analysing conflict: parties, stages and tools 0 /1
Unit 05
4.2c Responding to conflict: sanctions, peacekeeping and intervention 0 /1
Unit 06
4.3a Conceptions of peace: negative, positive and quality peace 0 /1
Unit 07
4.3b Peacemaking, peacebuilding and reconciliation 0 /1
Unit 08
4.4 Non-violence and civil resistance 0 /1
Unit 09
4.5 The future of peace and conflict 0 /1
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