International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Global Politics · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papers, amostras e documentos curriculares deste curso.
Course units and learning goals · Unidades do curso e objetivos de aprendizagem
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas aulas ensinam objetivos selecionados do curso. Verifique as lacunas de cobertura restantes; o material não é um programa completo de preparação.
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 · Preparação para esta qualificação
- 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 do ensino ainda necessária
- 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 · Especificações e documentos de exemplo
- Global Politics — Subject brief · 2026 ↗
First assessment: 2026
- Global Politics — Subject brief · 2017 ↗
First assessment: 2017
Course materials · Materiais do curso
- Study notes · Notas de estudo →
- Revision questions · Questões de revisão →
- Teaching guidance · Orientações de ensino · Teacher access · Acesso do professor →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnósticos do professor · Teacher access · Acesso do professor →
- Supervised task guidance · Orientações de tarefa supervisionada · Teacher access · Acesso do professor →
Course preparation · Preparação do curso
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Os documentos estão disponíveis. Notas específicas da banca, avaliações e prática interativa de provas anteriores ainda não estão disponíveis para todos os cursos.
Lessons · Lições →