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Core: Framing global politics

Examine who acts in global politics, who is affected, and how systems and rules shape their interactions. Topics: Stakeholders and actors, Systems: structures and dynamics, Legal frameworks, norms and institutions.

Core: Power in global politics

Examine contested understandings of power and apply its prescribed classifications to political situations. Topics: Defining and understanding power, Hard, soft and smart power, Structural and relational power, Economic, political, social and cultural power, Power to, power over and power with.

Core: Sovereignty in global politics

This unit examines what makes a state sovereign and how sovereignty operates within and beyond its borders. Topics: Nature of state sovereignty, Challenges to state sovereignty.

Core: Legitimacy in global politics

This unit examines legitimacy as the accepted right to exercise authority and asks whose acceptance matters. Topics: State and government legitimacy, Legitimacy of non-state actors, Contesting and changing legitimacy.

Core: Interdependence in global politics

This unit examines mutual reliance and the institutions, rules and relationships through which actors manage shared political issues. Topics: Global governance and international law, The United Nations, Cooperation, competition and global networks.

Core: Theoretical perspectives in global politics

This unit develops the use and critique of theories, models and analytical frameworks in political inquiry. Topics: Using and critiquing analytical frameworks.

Thematic study: Rights and justice

This unit examines contested rights and justice claims and the actors and institutions that shape their realization. Topics: Contested meanings, Interactions of political stakeholders and actors, Nature, practice and study of rights and justice, Debates on rights and justice.

Thematic study: Development and sustainability

This unit examines how development and sustainability are defined, pursued and assessed, including the distribution of benefits and costs. Topics: Contested meanings, Interactions of political stakeholders and actors, Nature, practice and study of development and sustainability, Debates on development and sustainability.

Thematic study: Peace and conflict

This unit examines contested meanings of peace and conflict, the actors involved, and how conflicts develop and are addressed. Topics: Contested meanings, Interactions of political stakeholders and actors, Nature, practice and study of peace and conflict, Debates on peace and conflict.

HL extension: Global political challenges

HL students investigate interconnected political challenges through at least two independently researched cases spanning at least two topic areas. Topics: Political analysis across the eight topic areas, Independent case-study research, Six guiding lines of inquiry, Paper 3 stimulus analysis.

Political analysis and assessment craft

Use political concepts and evidence to construct supported judgments in source responses, essays and the engagement project. Topics: Paper 1 source analysis, Paper 2 political essays, Concepts as analytical lenses, Engagement project.