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Please note this title is suitable for any student studying:
- Exam Board: International Baccalaureate (IB)
- Level and subject: IB Diploma Global Politics students - SL and HL
- First teaching: 2024
- First exams: 2025
Developed in cooperation with the IB and supporting the 2024 subject guide, this concept-based Course Book cements critical understanding of big picture issues and solutions. This title:
- Is published in cooperation with the IB so you can be assured the content is aligned, reviewed, and approved
- Focuses on both knowledge and skills with high quality content created by experienced IB authors, examiners, and teachers
- Contains student-centred activities that help to develop critical thinkers
- Has a new concept feature that supports student understanding on how key concepts can be linked and applied to different topics
- Nurtures outward-looking, reflective learners with student-friendly explanations of key concepts and TOK links
- Engages students with a regularly updated digital bank of relevant and topical case studies, for use both in and out of the classroom
- Prepares learners for assessment with exam-style practice questions and opportunities to hone ATL skills
Contents
ContentsHow to use this bookApproaches to global politics1 Core topics: Understanding power and global politics1.1 Framing global politics and systems and interactions in global politics1.1.1 Stakeholders and actors1.1.2 Systems — structures and dynamics1.1.3 Legal frameworks, norms and institutions1.2 Power in global politics1.2.1 Hard, soft and smart power1.2.2 Structural and relational power1.2.3 Economic, political, social and cultural power1.2.4 Power to, power over, power with, power within1.3 Sovereignty in global politics1.3.1 Nature of state sovereignty1.3.2 Challenges to state sovereignty1.4 Legitimacy in global politics1.4.1 Sources of state legitimacy1.4.2 Challenges to state and government legitimacy1.4.3 Sources of legitimacy of non-state actors1.4.4 Legitimation processes and loss of legitimacy of political actors1.5 Interdependence in global politics1.5.1 Global governance and international law1.5.2 The United Nations (UN)1.5.3 Participation of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-state actors in global governa1.6 Theoretical perspectives in global politics1.6.1 Theories, models and analytical frameworks in global politics1.6.2 Bias and limitations of theories and modelsExam-style questions2 Peace and conflict2.1 Contested meanings2.1.1 Peace (including positive and negative)2.1.2 Conflict (including latent and overt)2.1.3 Violence (including direct, structural and cultural)2.1.4 Non-violence2.2 Interactions of political stakeholders and actors2.2.1 Parties to conflict2.2.2 Violent and non-violent state and non-state actors2.2.3 Third parties2.2.4 Marginalized, vulnerable and most affected groups and individuals2.3 Nature, practice and study of peace and conflict2.3.1 Conflict dynamics2.3.2 Causes of conflict2.3.3 Types of conflict2.3.4 Peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding2.4 Debates on peace and conflict2.4.1 Justifications of violence in conflict2.4.2 Legitimacy of non-violent and violent protests2.4.3 Effectiveness of peacebuilding effortsExam-style questions3 Development and sustainability3.1 Contested meanings3.1.1 Poverty3.1.2 Development3.2 Interactions of political stakeholders and actors3.2.1 States3.2.2 IGOs3.2.3 Multinational and transnational companies (MNCs and TNCs)3.2.4 Civil society3.2.5 Marginalized, vulnerable or most affected groups and individuals3.3 Nature, practice and study of development and sustainability3.3.1 Dimensions and assessment of development and sustainability3.3.2 Pathways towards development and sustainability3.3.3 Factors affecting development3.4 Debates on development and sustainability3.4.1 Globalization3.4.2 Alternative views on development, poverty and sustainabilityExam-style questions4 Rights and justice4.1 Contested meanings4.1.1 Rights4.1.2 Justice4.1.3 Liberty4.1.4 Equality4.2 Interactions of political stakeholders and actors4.2.1 The state and national governments4.2.2 IGOs4.2.3 Regional human rights tribunals4.2.4 Civil-society organizations4.2.5 Marginalized, vulnerable, or most affected groups and individuals4.2.6 Private companies and unions4.3 Nature, practice and study of rights and justice4.3.1 Codification, protection and monitoring4.3.2 International and regional rights frameworks4.3.3 Development of world norms in rights and justice4.3.4 Responses to violations of rights and perceived injustices4.4 Debates on rights and justice4.4.1 Diverse standards and understandings of rights4.4.2 Politicization of rights and justice4.4.3 Claims on individual and collective rightsExam-style questionsSkills and assessmentStudy skillsPaper 1 guidancePaper 2 guidancePaper 3 guidanceThe engagement projectIndex
