Global Politics: international relations for A-level
Global Politics for Edexcel A-level Politics looks at the areas in which our lives are changing at rates never seen before. The world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent. Economies, norms, cultures and other aspects of our lives are more and more affected by occurrences across the world.
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About our Global Politics course
Study Dog is an online and mobile learning platform built for A Level Politics students. We have resources in a range of formats, including video, text and audio. This means that no matter how you learn, we provide resources to suit your learning style.
With engaging video lessons, audio notes, and in-depth materials like case studies, you can keep track of your progress with our progress tracking feature. These can be accessed at any time from a laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. Our resources are easy to read and keep you engaged to learn more about the political world.
Since our resources are available online, they are always kept up-to-date. So if there’s a new climate change conference or example for the international relations theories, you can be sure that we’ll update our Global Politics content so you have the latest updates available.
Within the Global Politics course, you’ll explore the theories that try to explain how and why we got to the international system we have, the rise of globalisation and regionalism, and the question of power in the international system. You’ll also look at four important types of global governance: political, economic, environmental and human rights.
Course Outline
- Realism
- Liberalism
- International anarchy vs the society of states
- Nation-state and sovereignty
- Globalisation
- Political Globalisation
- Economic Globalisation
- Cultural Globalisation
- Debates surrounding globalisation
- Globalisation and contemporary global issues
- The United Nations
- Origins of the UN
- The Security Council
- The General Assembly
- Other UN Organs
- NATO
- Origins & Role during the Cold War
- NATO 1991-2022
- NATO since 2022
- Political governance and contemporary issues
- The International Monetary Fund
- The World Bank
- The World Trade Organisation
- G7 and G20
- Theories of economic global governance
- The North-South Divide
- Dependency Theory
- World Systems Theory
- Measures of Poverty
- Development Theories
- Economic governance and contemporary issues
- Human rights & international law
- The International Court of Justice
- The International Criminal Court
- UN tribunals
- European Court of Human Rights
- Issues in human rights governance
- The UNFCCC
- The IPCC
- Climate change conferences
- Issues in environmental governance
- Types of power
- State power classifications
- Polarity
- Changes in world order
- Systems of government
- HIC Case Study: Iceland
- LIC Case Study: Morocco
- Developments
- Power and contemporary global issues
- Types of regionalism
- Debates surrounding regionalism
- Regionalism outside Europe
- African Union
- Arab League
- ASEAN
- USMCA
- Background to European integration
- Treaties & institutions of the EU
- Debates surrounding the EU
- Regionalism and contemporary global issues
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