Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Commercial diplomacy—that is, leveraging the resources of the sovereign government in your firm’s location to ensure a level playing field in the foreign markets in which the firm does business—is often an effective means of resolving, and in some instances preventing, disagreements that might otherwise fester into disputes.

And those disputes can be even more protracted and expensive than the ones you face in your home market because of their international nature.

For example: In Countries A and B, the governments refuse to consult with businesses like yours on important decisions and persist in passing dead-of-night emergency ordinances that disadvantage your operations to the benefit of local competitors.