Global Politics · Core topics: Understanding power and global politics
CT.1 — Framing global politics
Global Politics · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes
Stakeholders and actors
The individuals and groups that shape political issues, and the difference between an actor (has the agency/means to exercise power) and a stakeholder (affected, but may lack that agency).
Systems, structures and dynamics
How the structure and dynamics of a political system regulate the interactions and possible courses of action of political actors.
Legal frameworks, norms and institutions
The rules, norms and institutions, formal organizations and the wider social structures of rules and norms alike, that shape and constrain political behaviour.