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PoliticsQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every VIC Politics syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Unit 3: Global actors
- China as a rising power in the Asia-Pacific, its national interests and the instruments of power it uses, and an evaluation of its growing regional influence6Q&A pairs
- the instruments of foreign policy used by states to pursue national interests, including diplomacy, trade and economic measures, and military force, and how states select between them7Q&A pairs
- the key global actors of contemporary global politics (states, intergovernmental organisations, transnational corporations and non-state actors) and their aims, roles and power8Q&A pairs
- the meaning of national interests, including security, economic prosperity and the pursuit of values, and how states define and pursue them5Q&A pairs
- the aims, roles and power of non-government organisations as key non-state actors, and an evaluation of their influence in contemporary global politics6Q&A pairs
- the national interests of major Asia-Pacific actors and the ways their pursuit of power leads to cooperation, competition and conflict in the region4Q&A pairs
- the concept of the state, the characteristics of statehood and the meaning and significance of sovereignty for states in contemporary global politics4Q&A pairs
- the role, purposes and principal organs of the United Nations as a key intergovernmental organisation, and an evaluation of its effectiveness in contemporary global politics4Q&A pairs
- the United States as an established power in the Asia-Pacific, its national interests and instruments of power, and an evaluation of its ability to maintain its regional position5Q&A pairs
- the aims, roles and power of transnational corporations as key global actors, and an evaluation of their influence relative to states7Q&A pairs
- the different types of power used by global actors, including military, economic, diplomatic and cultural (hard, soft and smart) power, and their effectiveness12Q&A pairs
Unit 4: Global challenges
- the global crisis of armed conflict and terrorism, its causes and consequences, and the responses of global actors to managing and resolving it6Q&A pairs
- the global ethical issue of arms control, the competing principles at stake, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of responses to controlling weapons5Q&A pairs
- the challenges to achieving effective resolution of global crises, including state sovereignty, great-power rivalry, the limits of international law and collective action problems5Q&A pairs
- the global ethical issue of development, the debate over how it should be measured and pursued, and the effectiveness of responses by global actors6Q&A pairs
- a case study of one contemporary global crisis, analysing its causes and consequences and evaluating the effectiveness of responses by global actors11Q&A pairs
- the global ethical issue of human rights, the debate over universality versus cultural relativism and state sovereignty, and the effectiveness of responses5Q&A pairs
- the global ethical issue of the movement of people, the debate between humanitarian obligation and state sovereignty, and the effectiveness of responses5Q&A pairs
- the realist and cosmopolitan perspectives that underpin debates over global ethical issues, and how they shape the positions actors take and the responses they support10Q&A pairs
- the global crisis of terrorism, its causes and consequences, the challenges of asymmetric warfare, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of counter-terrorism responses7Q&A pairs