Every subtopic of DP Global Politics, ready to teach.

Eighteen lessons across six topics introduce the central concepts and frameworks of DP Global Politics. Students examine the nature of political systems and the actors within them — states, IGOs, NGOs, and MNCs — before developing precise understandings of power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and interdependence as analytical tools applicable across all subsequent units.

Skills & assessment. Lessons build the conceptual vocabulary and analytical habits required for Paper 1 and Paper 2, with structured practice in defining, explaining, and evaluating key concepts using real-world political examples. Command terms are introduced explicitly and applied consistently throughout.

Twelve lessons across four topics develop students' understanding of international human rights frameworks, the contested legitimacy of humanitarian intervention including the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, mechanisms for rights enforcement and violation, and the dimensions of social justice and equality. Case studies ground abstract frameworks in concrete political realities.

Skills & assessment. Students practise the evaluation and synthesis skills demanded by Paper 2 extended responses, comparing universal and culturally relative conceptions of rights, assessing the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals, and analysing political movements through the lenses of justice and power.

Twelve lessons across four topics examine how development is defined, measured, and contested; the political dimensions of environmental sustainability and climate governance; the structural causes and consequences of global inequality; and the ambitions and implementation challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Lessons draw on economic, human, and sustainable development models alongside critical perspectives.

Skills & assessment. Students develop the ability to evaluate competing development paradigms and apply indicators such as GDP and HDI critically — skills central to Paper 2 responses. The role of international financial institutions, state actors, and civil society is interrogated throughout, preparing students to construct well-evidenced, multi-perspective arguments.

Fifteen lessons across five topics examine conflict through realist, liberal, and constructivist theoretical lenses; explore diplomacy, mediation, and UN peacekeeping as responses; analyse nuclear deterrence and arms control regimes; investigate the definitions, causes, and countering of terrorism; and develop conceptual precision around negative peace, positive peace, and structural violence.

Skills & assessment. Students are supported in building the comparative and evaluative arguments required for Paper 2, using command terms such as evaluate, compare, and discuss in relation to real-world conflict cases. The unit also reinforces the key concepts of power, peace, and conflict as analytical categories applied across diverse political contexts.

Sixteen lessons across eight HL topics extend students' engagement with the course's key concepts through in-depth study of pressing global political challenges. Each topic pairs a conceptual and theoretical lesson with a case study lesson, developing the depth of analysis required for the HL essay. Topics range from contested borders and migration control to digital surveillance, health inequity, and the politics of identity and nationalism.

Skills & assessment. The HL extension is designed explicitly around the demands of the HL essay — requiring students to construct sustained, well-evidenced arguments that engage with multiple perspectives on a single global challenge. Lessons develop the skills of synthesis, critical evaluation, and conceptual application at the level of complexity expected at HL.

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