Neutrality and Nobility: How the Order of Malta runs its diplomatic service

How do you staff more than 100 embassies with volunteers?

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta has, for 900 years, existed in a unique legal space. Founded as a hospitaller order of noble knights during the middle ages, it eventually found itself as the sovereign rulers of various territories, including the islands of Rhoades and of Malta, finally losing control of its namesake territory during the Napoleonic…