Three priorities for her study

1. Understand globalization as a set of processes (economic, technological, cultural, political, environmental) rather than as a single thing.
2. Master the basics of climate change, since it is the single most important long-term issue she will face and likely the most commonly tested environmental topic.
3. Be able to discuss how globalization has produced backlash, since the populist reactions of the 2010s and 2020s are not peripheral but central to contemporary politics.

This is the most extemp-friendly unit in the course. Almost every contemporary international affairs extemp question touches the material here. Climate policy, U.S.-China relations, the Russian war in Ukraine, AI regulation, immigration debates, populism, the future of the EU, and many other extemp topics build directly on the foundations of this unit.

If she can complete the Need-to-Know checklist without notes and score 12 out of 15 on the multiple choice practice, she is ready for Unit 10.10: Human Rights Violations. That unit covers the major genocides of the twentieth century (Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, Bosnian Genocide), the development of international human rights law, and contemporary human rights debates.