Key Concepts
This is the foundational concept of Global Politics, without which we would have nothing to study.
What is power?
A country at high risk of conflict or collapse due to political instability and weak governance.
What is a fragile state?
This narrow waterway between Iran and Oman is one of the world’s most important oil chokepoints.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
In early 2026, U.S. forces captured the former Venezuelan president on charges of...
What is narco-terrorism?
This person is in charge of NOK and the IRP for Dwight Courses students.
Who is Mr. Schwed?
This concept refers to the mutual reliance of actors in Global Politics.
What is legitimacy?
This refers to a global power system with two hegemonic states.
What is a bipolar system / bipolarity?
This river is a major source of tension between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia due to dam construction.
What is the Nile River?
This country’s military government continues to face armed resistance after seizing power in a 2021 coup.
What is Myanmar?
What is Paper 2?
This form of sovereignty emphasizes absolute government control over its people and territory.
What is Westphalian sovereignty?
Aside from economic, environmental, political and social, this is the final factor that can promote / inhibit development.
What are institutional factors?
This part of Ukraine was annexed by Russia in 2014.
What is the Crimea?
Kenyan citizens are reported to have been recruited or forced to fight for this state (who has just promised to stop doing this...)
What is Russia?
What is eight?
This form of power emphasizes a state's control over the way that the international system operates.
What is structural power?
This form of development is measured through improvements in society, focusing on institutional strength, governance, and civil liberties and human rights.
What is socio-political development?
This narrow waterway connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and is critical to global trade.
What is the Suez Canal?
After Venezuela's government collapsed, this county lost its primary oil supply and its power grid failed completely, leaving it in the dark.
What is Cuba?
How many groups of classes are in the IBDP curriculum?
What are six?
This form of legitimacy can be measured by people's satisfaction with their system of governance.
What is state legitimacy?
Human rights are all of the following: interdependent, inalienable, indivisible and...
What is universal?
This country has the most time zones in the world.
What is France?
The prosecution of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong has raised concerns that this already-controversial law is being used to suppress dissent.
What is the National Security Law? (NSL)
This assessment is worth 30% of an SL Global Politics student's IB score, and 20% of an HL Global Politics student's IB score.
What is the Internal Assessment / IA?