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description: "How LLMs are showing up in policy analysis, governance, and civic life — and what you could build with them in this course."
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# Prompt Engineering for Politics & International Affairs

AI is simultaneously a tool for policy analysts, a subject of policy itself, and a new actor in elections, diplomacy, and governance. Law schools, think tanks, campaigns, and agencies increasingly expect both fluency and a clear point of view on it.

## Where this is showing up in Politics & International Affairs

- [LegiScan](https://legiscan.com), [Quorum](https://www.quorum.us), and [FiscalNote](https://fiscalnote.com) are baking LLMs into legislation tracking used by lobbyists, staffers, and advocacy groups.
- [Harvey](https://www.harvey.ai), Thomson Reuters' [Casetext CoCounsel](https://casetext.com/cocounsel/), and [Lexis+ AI](https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-ai.page) are rapidly becoming standard tools in law firms and legal research practice.
- [RAND](https://www.rand.org/topics/artificial-intelligence.html), [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/topic/artificial-intelligence/), [Carnegie](https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/technology-and-international-affairs/), and the [Stanford AI Index](https://aiindex.stanford.edu) publish continuous work on AI governance, election integrity, and national-security implications.
- Major policy instruments — the [EU AI Act](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu), [US executive orders on AI](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/), and the [UN's AI Advisory Body](https://www.un.org/ai-advisory-body) reports — are actively defining how AI gets deployed in government and beyond.

## Projects you could build in this course

- A tool that compares policy proposals or tracks legislation across jurisdictions
- A RAG assistant over international treaties, UN resolutions, or Supreme Court opinions
- A campaign or advocacy research tool that surfaces relevant precedent and framing

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