Sources your examiner will accept.
Research the Extended Essay, Global Politics IA, and History IA with citations to real primary sources — UN documents, treaty text, court rulings — not the web summaries that get flagged in the honesty review.
Strong primary base for an EE: the Security Council resolutions themselves (1718 through 2397) and the Panel of Experts reports that track evasion year by year. 12
For the effectiveness argument, pair the sanctions text with trade-flow datasets and the IAEA's reporting on continued nuclear activity. 34
A defensible research question narrows to one mechanism — say, the 2017 sectoral bans — rather than sanctions in general, which is too broad for 4,000 words. 5
One sourced workflow, start to final draft.
Ask, read, and draft without leaving the record.
Real citations, not fabricated ones.
It cites actual UN resolutions, treaty text, ICJ rulings, and ministry statements — sources you can put in your bibliography without an honesty-policy concern.
Explore ResearchTest your question before you commit.
Discover and search let you ask what primary sources exist on a topic before you spend a month on 4,000 words. Thin sources? Change the question now.
Explore DiscoverThe IR theory the rubric rewards.
Short lessons on realism, liberalism, constructivism, and securitization — the framings examiners look for in the Global Politics IA and TOK essay.
Explore LearnBuilt on the primary record — not the open web.
Model Diplomat reasons over the primary record IB examiners reward — treaties, UN documents, rulings, datasets. Every citation opens to the original.
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What you’re wondering.
The questions we get asked first.
The EE your examiner remembers is the one you sourced closely.
Test the question, find the primary sources, and write the essay that earns marks instead of comments about web over-reliance.
