International Relations
Trade Agreements
An agreement that can quietly change the price of everyday goods on store shelves, long before most consumers ever notice it was signed.
NATO
A military alliance built around a single core promise — attack one member, and you've effectively attacked them all — that has only actually been invoked once, and not for the reason most people would guess.
The United Nations
An organization built explicitly to prevent another world war, whose most powerful decision-making body still gives just five countries the power to individually block almost anything.