Constitutions, courts, legislation and the legal architecture that determines what political actors can do.
Germany's constructive vote of no confidence is designed to make removing a chancellor inseparable from building a replacement majority.
How power worksThe ICC can investigate and prosecute individuals within the jurisdiction created by the Rome Statute, but it has no police force and depends heavily on states for arrests and cooperation.
The return of major fighting in northern Ethiopia comes with alliances reversed, Sudan at war and Gulf powers competing across the Horn. A domestic conflict now has more pathways to regional escalation.
The Xiangshan Forum gives Beijing a platform to sell cooperation and multipolarity while disputes over Taiwan and the South China Sea keep trust in short supply.
Islamabad wants Saudi security ties, Iranian dialogue and freedom from another war. The region may force it to choose which objective comes first.
Europe now has common screening, faster procedures and a burden-sharing mechanism. The political question is whether member states actually share pressure when arrivals rise.
The EU is increasingly good at diagnosing judicial, corruption and media-freedom problems. Diagnosis without predictable enforcement can become ritual.
As governments debate AI safety and competitiveness, the infrastructure, models and expertise remain concentrated in private companies, creating an unusual imbalance between public authority and technical control.
By ordering Meta to restore rival AI assistants' access to WhatsApp during an investigation, Brussels is trying to prevent distribution power from becoming permanent AI dominance.
The EU agreed to delay important high-risk AI rules while adding new prohibitions, revealing how business pressure is reshaping the bloc's attempt to govern artificial intelligence.