Global politics

- Newly revised to accompany the Pearson Edexcel specification for Global Politics, with updated case studies and recent developments from around the world - Provides synoptic links within global politics, and across UK and political ideas topics - Includes definitions of key terms and concepts thro...

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Authors: Murphy, Robert (Author), Jefferies, John (Author), Gadsby, Josie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Hodder Education 2022
Edition:Pearson Edexcel A level
Catalogue:GEI:  Library Catalog Search Result
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  • Summary: - Newly revised to accompany the Pearson Edexcel specification for Global Politics, with updated case studies and recent developments from around the world - Provides synoptic links within global politics, and across UK and political ideas topics - Includes definitions of key terms and concepts throughout - Includes quickfire knowledge-check questions and summaries of key content to help consolidate knowledge and understanding - Features practice questions throughout, helping students improve their analysis and evaluation skills - Provides answer guidance for exam-style questions online on the Hodder Education website.
    Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Theories of global politics -- Getting you started -- What is global politics? -- Realism and liberalism -- Chapter 2 The state and globalisation -- Getting you started -- The state: nation-state and national sovereignty -- The process of globalisation -- To what extent does globalisation address and resolve contemporary issues? -- The implications of globalisation for the nation-state and national sovereignty -- Chapter 3 Global governance: political -- Getting you started -- What is global governance? -- The United Nations -- Key UN organs -- How effective is the UN? -- Treaties -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Chapter 4 Global governance: economic -- Getting you started -- What is economic global governance and why is it needed? -- International trade -- Poverty and development -- Role of global civil society and non-state actors -- Chapter 5 Global governance: human rights -- Getting you started -- Human rights and international law -- Human rights and state sovereignty -- Why did humanitarian intervention increase during the 1990s? -- Why have some humanitarian interventions been more successful than others? -- Why has humanitarian intervention been selective? -- Does Western hypocrisy undermine the principle of humanitarian intervention? -- Chapter 6 Global governance: environmental -- Getting you started -- Why is there a need for environmental global governance? -- What is climate change? -- What can be done to reduce climate change? -- Global governance efforts -- Paris Summit (COP 21, 2015) -- Chapter 7 Power and developments -- Getting you started -- Different types of global power -- The changing balance of global power -- Polarity -- Systems of government: characteristics -- How has the global balance of power changed since the end of the Cold War?.
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 pages) Illustrationen, Karten
  • ISBN: 9781398345041
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Date of admission:2022-04-04
Date modified:2023-08-14