Shifting Global Balances

This fiche summarises the key reference points of the chapter for the written exam and the oral exam.

Sub-theme	Key notions to mobilise
The US-China rivalry	trade tensions, the Belt and Road Initiative, the South China Sea
Brexit and Russia	fishing/agriculture negotiations, the Skripal affair
Emerging powers and the Arctic	institutional reform, new shipping routes

Describing a geopolitical rivalry: tensions have escalated over..., this reflects a broader struggle for...
Nuancing a balance of power: while this power remains dominant, it increasingly faces challenges from...
Concluding: this raises the question of how global institutions can adapt to...

Reshaped rivalries: China, Russia, but also emerging powers and the Arctic are redrawing the global balance.
Brexit: illustrates the complexity of renegotiating decades of regional economic and political ties.