Global Politics revision.

What you can use

Read topic notes, review flashcards and attempt original practice questions. Compare your written answers with suggested markschemes and solutions. Relevant quantitative lessons include equation references.

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Topics and guidance

• Power and political actors
• Sovereignty and statehood
• Legitimacy and political systems
• Interdependence and levels of analysis
• Human rights and universality
• Justice, equality and equity
• Rights claims and enforcement
• Development and measurement
• Inequality, poverty and development strategies
• Sustainability and global cooperation
• Peace, violence and conflict
• Conflict resolution and peacebuilding
• Environment, poverty and health · HL
• Identity, borders and security · HL
• Source analysis and essay argument
• Institutions, ideologies and political participation
• International law, civic action and accountability
• Non-state actors, escalation and post-conflict institutions
• Inquiry design and cross-challenge synthesis · HL
• Sudan: armed power and human security
• South Sudan: statehood and peacebuilding
• Russia–Ukraine: sovereignty and international institutions
• China–Taiwan: recognition, identity and competing claims
• Israel–Palestine: rights, security and self-determination
• Haiti: non-state power and the security–development relationship

Coverage and course references

Expanded core, thematic studies and HL inquiry methods; broad course mapping, not a verified statement-by-statement syllabus audit.

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