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 island nation shares a border with Haiti.
What is the DR / Dominican Republic?
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?
Ukraine’s western border is considered strategically important because many of those states belong to this alliance.
What is NATO?
This first female prime minister of Japan just led her coalition to victory in snap elections.
Who is Sanae Takaichi?
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.
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?
This African country has experienced mass displacement and famine due to fighting between its national army and the Rapid Support Forces.
What is Sudan?
During this portion of an IB test, there is no writing, underlining or highlighting allowed.
What is reading time?
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 African country controls the headwaters of the Blue Nile, giving it major regional influence.
What is Ethiopia?
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?