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DeskDESK-political-riskPolitical Risk & GovernanceCreated 2026-06-03Updated 2026-09-11Standard: AEGEAN-OS v1.3
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Political Risk & Governance.

The political risk desk reads structural political exposure: resource-nationalist cycles, sanctions architecture, state transitions, and the capture environments where public competitions and licenses are actually decided.

REPORTS: 4 WATCHLIST: 4 INDICATORS COLLECTION: CONTINUOUS LAST PUBLICATION: 2026-07-16
01 · STANDING WATCH
STANDING WATCHLIST
Resource-nationalism wave 3 cohortELEVATED
Venezuela opening reversibilityWATCH
Capture environments, federal cycleSTEADY
Sanctions architecture driftWATCH
SCOPE

Resource-nationalist cycles, sanctions architecture, state transitions, and the capture environments where competitions are decided.

MONITORED CONTINUOUSLY AGAINST THE APPROVED SOURCE ALLOWLIST.
PUBLISHED WHEN THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS A JUDGMENT.
SIGNATURE SERIES · INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTES

Filings peaked in 2018 and have fallen by a third. The recent years are undercounts.

Known treaty-based investor-state arbitrations initiated per year. The peak is 93 in 2018; 2025 stands at 56. Read the last five years with care: UNCTAD states that annual counts first reported between 2015 and 2022 have been revised upward by about 20 percent over time, and that fully confidential arbitrations never enter the count at all. The recent bars are drawn hollow because they will grow.

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1,463
Known cases on the record
Cumulative to 31 Dec 2025
93
Peak filings, 2018
56 in 2025
~20%
Upward revision to recent annual counts
UNCTAD's own stated drift
SOURCE · UNCTAD Investment Policy Hub, Investment Dispute Settlement Navigator, read from the live database rather than a published chart.DATA THROUGH · 31 December 2025
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