International Relations

Regional cooperation and the Indo-Pacific

School-level history and geography; basic constitutional institutions; first systematic study of international relations.

Includes

• Assigned sections and concise recall notes
• Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
• One initial closed-book review

Separate time needed

• Later revision and full timed papers
• Continuing diplomatic news and changing officeholders or statistics
• World-history chronology and general economic theory already assigned elsewhere

Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  Chapter 10, pp. 184–187, institutional descriptions; exclude chairholders and event diary

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 2: Contemporary Centres of Power (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  ASEAN section, pp. 19–22: the ASEAN Way, three community pillars and India's Look East/Act East transition only. Exclude current membership, economic rankings, the claim that ASEAN is Asia's only regional association, maps and cartoons. Read Charter Article 20 alongside the consensus account.

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  Chapter 12, pp. 190–192: vision, ASEAN, East Asia Summit and IPOI; distinguish 2022 programme account from current commitments

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 2: Contemporary Centres of Power (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Printed p. 17 sentence on economic influence over neighbours, Asia and Africa only; exclude outdated membership map, rankings, figures, Schengen timeline and misleading UK/Denmark/Sweden claims on pp. 18–19. Institutional authority is assigned through current official explanations.

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  Chapter 9, Quad, pp. 163–164; founding cooperation mechanisms, not current status

• Annual Report 2022 ↗

  Chapter 5, SCO, pp. 96–98; institutional mechanisms only, before later membership expansion

• Contemporary World Politics, chapter 3: Contemporary South Asia (Reprint 2026–27) ↗

  Peace and Cooperation, printed p. 42, PDF p. 14: political differences limiting SAARC; exclude cartoon, prospective forecasts and current treaty-status assumptions

• SAARC Charter: General Provisions ↗

  SAARC Charter Article X only: unanimity and excluded deliberations. Do not assign the compilation’s other treaties or infer that unanimity resolves political disputes.

• SAARC at a glance: Secretariat ↗

  The Secretariat paragraph on coordination, monitoring, meeting support and communication. Exclude current officials, staffing, summit frequency and institutional-performance claims.

• ASEAN Charter: consultation and consensus ↗

  Article 20(1)–(4) only. Preserve the consensus principle, Summit fallback, other legal-instrument rules and serious-breach referral. No membership list or annexes assigned.

• ASEAN Coordinating Council ↗

  ASEAN Coordinating Council section: composition and Article 8 functions. Exclude other page sections and current country inventories.

• Secretary-General of ASEAN: role ↗

  Article 11 role: appointment and implementation monitoring/reporting. Exclude current officeholder and uninspected material.

• ASEAN Summit ↗

  Opening paragraph: composition and highest policy-making role. Exclude historical summit lists and any inference that prescribed meeting frequency proves actual meetings.

• BIMSTEC Charter ↗

  Scanned PDF visually read: Article 1 on pp. 3–4; Article 2 and Article 3 on p. 4; Article 8(1)–(2) on p. 7; Article 9(1)–(2)(a)–(e) on p. 8; Article 13 and Article 14(4)(a)–(b) on p. 12; Article 18 on p. 14. The full 27-page document is not assigned. Distinguish 2022 adoption from 2024 entry into force.

• BIMSTEC Charter enters into force ↗

  Charter Enters into Force paragraph: signed/adopted 30 March 2022 and entered into force 20 May 2024. Exclude images, other news and prospective claims.

• BIMSTEC mechanisms ↗

  Mechanism section: national focal points and five institutional tiers. Read with scoped Charter provisions; no claim about how regularly the bodies actually meet.

• Charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ↗

  Articles 2–3 on cooperation; Articles 5–6 on governing councils; Article 10 on RATS; Article 11 opening paragraph on Secretariat; Article 16 including its exceptions and project opt-out; Article 17 on domestic implementation. Exclude membership lists, current officials and any claim that stated objectives prove performance.

• Prime Minister’s address to the SCO summit, July 2023 ↗

  4 July 2023 speech: SECURE priorities; terrorism/RATS paragraph; Afghanistan priorities; connectivity paragraph. Treat as India’s stated position and policy proposals, not neutral adjudication of disputes or evidence of achieved results. Exclude statistics, event counts and current membership assumptions.

• IORA Charter, 2014 ↗

  2014 Charter sections 2(a)–(f), 3(a)–(c), 4 and 5(a), (b), (f). Read economic cooperation, consensus and institutional responsibilities; exclude dated signatory inventory, other bodies and current implementation claims.

• Types of EU institutions and bodies ↗

  Institutions section: ordinary legislative process and seven named institution descriptions. Exclude staffing/agency totals, rankings, the oversimplified Treaty-date labels and the claim that European Council Treaty changes are ordinary law-making. ECB scope is the euro area; the EU and euro area are not interchangeable.

• Unanimity in the Council of the European Union ↗

  Opening rule, CFSP bullet including qualified-majority exceptions, and final abstention sentence. Exclude other policy fields; unanimity is not an all-EU-law rule.

• What is NATO? ↗

  Basic points: political/military alliance and transatlantic link; Activities: decisions/consultations and partnerships; Working structures: North Atlantic Council prose. Exclude membership inventory, current strategy, organisation chart and operational claims.

• Collective defence and Article 5 ↗

  Opening assistance obligation; What happens when Article 5 is triggered: individual choice of assistance and constitutional limits. Read with the explanation of geographical scope under Article 6. Exclude later operation histories and political claims about effectiveness.

• AUKUS submarine initiative announced, September 2021 ↗

  17 September 2021 opening announcement, information/technology-sharing paragraph, submarine first initiative and explicit no-nuclear-weapons statement. Exclude fleet size, performance promises and subsequent delivery assumptions.

• AUKUS Defence Ministers joint statement, December 2023 ↗

  Opening paragraph defining Pillars I and II, and Pillar II opening paragraph only. Dated description of the partnership; exclude delivery timetables, technical project claims and any assertion that the 2023 programme existed unchanged in 2021.