§-Politics Q&A
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Politics Q&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 influence
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 them
the key global actors of contemporary global politics (states, intergovernmental organisations, transnational corporations and non-state actors) and their aims, roles and power
the meaning of national interests, including security, economic prosperity and the pursuit of values, and how states define and pursue them
the aims, roles and power of non-government organisations as key non-state actors, and an evaluation of their influence in contemporary global politics
the national interests of major Asia-Pacific actors and the ways their pursuit of power leads to cooperation, competition and conflict in the region
the concept of the state, the characteristics of statehood and the meaning and significance of sovereignty for states in contemporary global politics
the role, purposes and principal organs of the United Nations as a key intergovernmental organisation, and an evaluation of its effectiveness in contemporary global politics
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 position
the aims, roles and power of transnational corporations as key global actors, and an evaluation of their influence relative to states
the different types of power used by global actors, including military, economic, diplomatic and cultural (hard, soft and smart) power, and their effectiveness
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 it
the global ethical issue of arms control, the competing principles at stake, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of responses to controlling weapons
the challenges to achieving effective resolution of global crises, including state sovereignty, great-power rivalry, the limits of international law and collective action problems
the global ethical issue of development, the debate over how it should be measured and pursued, and the effectiveness of responses by global actors
a case study of one contemporary global crisis, analysing its causes and consequences and evaluating the effectiveness of responses by global actors
the global ethical issue of human rights, the debate over universality versus cultural relativism and state sovereignty, and the effectiveness of responses
the global ethical issue of the movement of people, the debate between humanitarian obligation and state sovereignty, and the effectiveness of responses
the realist and cosmopolitan perspectives that underpin debates over global ethical issues, and how they shape the positions actors take and the responses they support
the global crisis of terrorism, its causes and consequences, the challenges of asymmetric warfare, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of counter-terrorism responses