Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Asie — Bac 2025

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Relation au monde ». Partie 1 (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots environ) : Taking into account the three documents, say what they reveal about the United States’ increasing interests in the Arctic and its strategic choices. Partie 2 (4 pts) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document B (l. 10-16) : Eight nations have a presence in the Arctic, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the United States and Russia. All have interests there for both commerce and security. Climate changes have meant the melting of ice in the Arctic and the opening of new sea routes, which means new opportunities for commerce and resource exploitation, but also increased risk to nations whose borders were previously protected by the region's inaccessibility. 25-LLCERANMCJA1 Page : 2/9 Document A A thawing1 Arctic is heating up a new Cold War In early May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Rovaniemi, the capital of Finland’s northernmost province, to deliver a speech to the Arctic Council, a group made up of the eight nations that border the Arctic, plus representatives of the region’s indigenous peoples. […] 5 “This is America’s moment to stand up as an Arctic nation and for the Arctic’s future,” Pompeo declared at an event the night before the official meeting. “Because far from the barren2 backcountry that many thought it to be … the Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance.” The speech signaled the end of a truly bizarre rebranding of the Arctic that has been 10 under way for more than a decade. What was once considered a frozen wasteland is now routinely described as an emerging frontier. The Arctic, in other words, is open for business. […] Today the Arctic landscape is greener than you are probably comfortable imagining, with fewer caribou and reindeer, more mosquitoes, warmer summers. […] 15 Along the new frontier, the contest will not be about claiming new territory. Except for a few disputed tracts,3 mostly on the seafloor and including the North Pole itself, the Arctic’s borders are settled. Instead nations and corporations are now seeking a share of trillions of dollars’ worth of minerals—including gold, diamonds, and rare earth metals—petroleum, natural gas, and fish, as well as