A plain map of who does what among global bodies, from the General Assembly's 193 votes to the WTO's trade rules, and why only the Security Council can bind a state.
Microstates turn smallness into influence: coalition blocs at the United Nations, procedural niches, and quiet mediation, as the Cuban thaw of 2014 showed.
Policy analysis is data cleaning, replication and memo writing. Per the BLS handbook, about 8,800 survey researchers held jobs in 2022, most inside research firms.
Extradition treaties are the quiet plumbing of international justice. How dual criminality, political exceptions and human rights bars decide who gets sent home.
Most headlines are noise. A handful of indicators, read with patience, map directly onto hiring, pricing, and inventory decisions.
Licensing, lists, end-use tests and extraterritorial reach: the machinery that decides which machines, chips and know-how can leave a country.