Paper 3 Checklists 

Unit 4: Power, Places and Networks

🌍 1. Global Interactions and Global Power

📊 Understand how global power and influence varies spatially
🌐 Explain globalization indices and how countries participate in global interactions
💪 Identify global superpowers and their economic, geopolitical, and cultural influence
✍️ Include detailed examples of at least two actual or potential global superpowers

🏛️ Know the role of powerful organizations and global groups:
🤝 G7/8, G20, and OECD
🛢️ OPEC and its influence over energy policy
💰 IMF and New Development Bank (NDB) and global lending institutions

🧠 Synthesis & Skills
📉 Understand how wealthy and powerful places exist at different scales and how global power maps shift over time

🔗 2. Global Networks and Flows

🌐 Describe how different places become interconnected through global interactions

📦 Understand key flows in global networks:
🚢 Trade in materials, goods, and services
🌍 International aid, loans, and debt relief
💸 Remittances from economic migrants
🚫 Illegal flows: trafficking, counterfeit goods, narcotics

🏭 Know how Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and TNC outsourcing affect places and markets
📦 Provide two contrasting examples of TNCs and their global strategies and supply chains

🧠 Synthesis & Skills
🗺️ Evaluate the importance of different flows and the best methods to represent them graphically and spatially

🧭 3. Human and Physical Influences on Global Interactions

🏛️ Understand how political, technological, and physical processes shape global interactions

🗳️ Identify key political influences:
🌐 Multi-governmental organizations (MGOs) and free trade zones
🚧 Migration controls and rules

💻 Explore technological drivers of globalization:
📶 Changes in global data flow patterns
✈️ Transport developments over time
📱 Communication infrastructure and use

🌋 Evaluate physical environmental influences:
💧 Resource availability
🏔️ Geographic isolation and barriers

🧠 Synthesis & Skills
🌍 Understand how spatial interactions are complex and interlinked in accelerating globalization

Unit 5: Human Development and Diversity

🌱 1. Development Opportunities

🔄 Understand the processes that support human development
📏 Learn how human development is measured:
🎯 UN Sustainable Development Goals
📊 Indicators like HDI and GII

♀️ Explore actions to empower women, Indigenous, and minority groups
✍️ Include illustrative examples of affirmative action

💼 Know the role of social entrepreneurship:
💸 Microfinance organizations and networks
🛍️ Alternative trade networks like Fairtrade
🏢 TNCs’ CSR frameworks and global agreements

🧠 Synthesis & Skills
🌍 Explain how human development actions involve spatial interactions from local to global scales

🎭 2. Changing Identities and Cultures

🌐 Understand how global interactions influence cultural diversity and identity
🌎 Explore the spectrum of cultural traits, ethnicities, and identities at various scales

📣 Assess how global interactions affect cultural diversity through:
🌍 Diffusion of cultural traits & cultural imperialism
🔁 Glocalization and cultural hybridity
🏙️ Changes in cultural landscapes (built environment)

🌍 Understand diaspora influences on identity and diversity at local and global levels
✍️ Include a case study of a global diaspora population and its culture(s)

🧠 Synthesis & Skills
🔍 Evaluate differing perspectives on changes to cultural diversity at various scales

🏘️ 3. Local Responses to Global Interactions

🧠 Understand how local and civil society actors resist or accept global interactions

🚫 Explore reasons for resistance:
✊ Anti-TNC campaigns and support for local sourcing
📉 Rise of anti-immigration movements

🌐 Explore geopolitical constraints:
🔒 Restrictions on freedoms and access to global interactions
📦 National trade protections and resource nationalism

📢 Evaluate civil society’s role in promoting global awareness and participation:
📱 Social media use and internet freedom advocacy
✍️ Include two detailed examples of places where restricted freedoms have been challenged

🧠 Synthesis & Skills
🌎 Analyse how resistance or acceptance occurs in different forms and at varying scales

Unit 6: Global Risk and Resilience