Political risk affects every organization — from multinational corporations navigating sanctions to startups evaluating new markets. Yet most professionals lack a structured way to think about it. This course gives you one. Derived from graduate-level curriculum taught at a top-10 international affairs program, this introduction covers the foundational vocabulary, key distinctions, and analytical frameworks that professional political risk analysts use every day. You'll learn to distinguish risk from uncertainty, apply the two sequential questions framework, and work through a real-world scenario exercise.