Political developments covered for their economic consequence: budget standoffs, coalition changes, industrial action, sanctions disputes and treaty negotiations. Each piece states the channel through which politics reaches output, prices or investment. Read by economists, corporate strategists and public affairs teams pricing political events.
Embassies handle state-to-state business from the capital; consulates handle people and paperwork from cities — and most of what travelers imagine is diplomacy is consular work.
Valentina Sokolov · March 8, 2026
Extradition runs on treaties, dual criminality, and political-exception clauses — a machinery that famous cases stress but rarely break.
Valentina Sokolov · March 4, 2026
Every blue-helmet mission exists because the Security Council wrote it into being, and survives because 193 states pay assessments the U.S. Congress can quietly starve.
Christopher Lee · February 27, 2026
The 1961 Vienna Convention shields envoys from prosecution — completely for ambassadors, narrowly for consuls — and the escape valve is waiver, not lawsuits.
Christopher Lee · February 23, 2026
Five states can stop any Security Council resolution alone — a design frozen in 1945 that the General Assembly has learned to route around, not remove.
Christopher Lee · February 18, 2026