Diploma del Bachillerato Internacional · IB Diploma
Global Politics · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papeles, muestras y documentos curriculares para este curso.
Course units and learning goals · Unidades del curso y objetivos de aprendizaje
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas lecciones enseñan objetivos del curso seleccionados. Revisa los vacíos de cobertura restantes; el material no es un programa completo de preparación.
Core · Power, legitimacy and source analysis
- Explain power relationships using concepts
- Compare source claims and perspectives against evidence
- legitimacy
- Accepted justification for authority.
- agenda
- The issues selected for attention or decision.
Thematic studies · Rights, development, sustainability and peace
- Analyse connections between rights/justice, development/sustainability and peace/conflict
- Evaluate competing perspectives with bounded examples
- justice
- Principles and practices of fair treatment.
- sustainability
- Maintaining well-being and resources over time.
Engagement project · Engagement and reflective research
- Form a focused political issue and conduct approved engagement
- Connect experience, research, perspectives and critical reflection
- engagement
- Approved direct experience connected to a political inquiry.
- perspective
- A position from which an issue is understood.
HL extension · Global challenges and case synthesis
- Link multiple global political challenges across researched cases
- Evaluate institutions and responses through stimulus evidence
- cooperation
- Actors working together toward an outcome.
- sovereignty
- Authority claimed by a state over its territory and affairs.
Preparing for this qualification · Preparación para esta cualificación
- SL: Paper 1 75 min 30%, Paper 2 90 min 40%, engagement project 30%. HL: Paper 1 75 min 20%, Paper 2 90 min 30%, stimulus Paper 3 90 min 30%, engagement project 20%.
- Use the 2026 core/thematic model and HL stimulus paper, not the retired 2017 HL presentation. School approves a safe, non-partisan engagement and bounded case selection.
Teaching coverage still needed · Cobertura docente aún necesaria
- Full guide required for prescribed content and HL challenge selection; verified current cases, complete source papers and real approved engagement remain.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Especificaciones y documentos de muestra
- Global Politics — Subject brief · 2026 ↗
First assessment: 2026
- Global Politics — Subject brief · 2017 ↗
First assessment: 2017
Course materials · Materiales del curso
- Study notes · Notas de estudio →
- Revision questions · Preguntas de repaso →
- Teaching guidance · Guía docente · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnóstico del profesor · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
- Supervised task guidance · Guía de tareas supervisadas · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
Course preparation · Preparación del curso
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Los documentos están disponibles. Las notas específicas de la entidad evaluadora, las evaluaciones y la práctica interactiva deantiguos exámenes no están disponibles aún para todos los cursos.
Lessons · Lecciones →