A step-by-step practice frame for the IB Global Politics IA. Choose and justify a political issue, engage with it for real, analyse it through the course's key concepts and competing political perspectives, and evaluate it in a focused ~2,000-word report — with the assessment criteria and the engagement-project method built in.
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This is roughly how your exported DOCX / PDF will read. Use it to rehearse a focused, well-organised engagement project that analyses and evaluates one political issue.
The IB Global Politics IA is the engagement project: you engage — through experience, action and/or research — with a political issue of personal interest, then write a report of about 2,000 words. The report justifies your choice of issue, draws on the engagement, links the issue to the course's key concepts and to political theory, and analyses and evaluates the issue from multiple perspectives. This examiner-written practice frame walks you through the method step by step — choose a focused, contestable political issue and a real form of engagement, decide which key concepts (power, sovereignty, legitimacy, interdependence, human rights, development, peace and conflict, equality, justice) and which competing perspectives the issue turns on, plan the report so analysis and evaluation dominate, turn your engagement into political evidence, analyse the issue through concepts and perspectives, and reach a reasoned, balanced judgement. Each step is paired with the assessment criteria, worked good-and-bad examples and the traps that cost marks, and your report exports to DOCX or PDF.
The engagement project is internally assessed and marked out of 20 across criteria that reward: identifying, justifying and explaining a focused political issue; a purposeful engagement that genuinely deepens understanding of that issue; analysis using the course's key concepts and competing political perspectives; and evaluation of the issue from multiple perspectives, reaching a reasoned, balanced conclusion. Top-mark reports do not describe an activity — they weave a real engagement together with conceptual analysis and multiple perspectives on one well-chosen issue.
The whole project is built around one focused, contestable political issue, paired with a genuine engagement that brings you into contact with it. Treat the engagement as evidence, not as a diary: report what you observed, heard and learned that bears on power, rights, governance or justice. Analyse the issue through the course's key concepts and through more than one political perspective, and evaluate by weighing those perspectives against the evidence and against each other — keeping the report focused on one issue throughout.
The Global Politics engagement-project tool is free to start: the planning sections are free, and the later sections are a one-time unlock per tool. You sign in to save your work to your own account and sync it across devices. The frame and its guidance are written by experienced IB educators. It is free to start: the planning sections are free, and the later sections are a one-time unlock per tool. Sign in to save your work and sync it across devices.