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Class 12

Political Science: Contemporary World Politics

35 lessons in 7 chapters, explained in plain words.

The End of Bipolarity

  1. The Soviet system
  2. Gorbachev and the disintegration
  3. Why the Soviet Union disintegrated
  4. Consequences and shock therapy
  5. Conflicts and India's relations

Contemporary Centres of Power

  1. Forming the European Union
  2. The EU's influence and limits
  3. ASEAN
  4. The rise of China
  5. India-China relations; Japan and South Korea

Contemporary South Asia

  1. What is South Asia?
  2. Pakistan and Bangladesh
  3. Nepal and Sri Lanka
  4. India and its neighbours
  5. Peace and cooperation

International Organisations

  1. Why international organisations?
  2. Evolution of the UN
  3. Reforming the Security Council
  4. India and the UN reforms
  5. The UN in a unipolar world and other organisations

Security in the Contemporary World

  1. What is security?
  2. Traditional security: external and internal
  3. Cooperation in traditional security
  4. Non-traditional security and new threats
  5. Cooperative security and India's strategy

Environment and Natural Resources

  1. Environment in global politics
  2. Global commons and shared responsibility
  3. Common property and India's stand
  4. Environmental movements
  5. Resource geopolitics and indigenous peoples

Globalisation

  1. The concept of globalisation
  2. Causes of globalisation
  3. Political and economic consequences
  4. Cultural consequences
  5. India and resistance to globalisation