VCE PoliticsPractice Examination 4

This paper covers

• Weapons of mass destruction as a global issue — North Korea's nuclear/missile program and Iran's enrichment breakout as the primary case studies, with IAEA, UNSC, NPT and TPNW/ICAN as the response mechanisms under evaluation
• Armed conflict as a contemporary crisis — the Russia-Ukraine war (Feb 2022–present) as the case study: causes rooted in Russian revanchism and NATO enlargement, key actors and competing interests, humanitarian/geopolitical consequences, and the effectiveness of UN, NATO, EU-sanctions and ICC responses
• Japan as the Indo-Pacific state — national interests (security amid China/DPRK/Taiwan Strait pressure, economic prosperity, alliance management), hard/soft/smart power tools (2022 National Security Strategy, counterstrike capability, Quad, FOIP, ODA), and internal/external constraints (Article 9, demographic decline, Senkaku tensions)
• Australia in the Indo-Pacific — national interests and power projection through AUKUS, the Falepili Union with Tuvalu, and the Pacific Policing Initiative, tested against an original embedded stimulus (data table plus scenario extract) in Section B
• Integrated Section C extended responses requiring explicit conceptual control (power types, national interest, sovereignty, legitimacy, multilateralism) and a substantiated judgement anchored in named, dated post-2016 evidence

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

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