Policy · Cyberspace · Data · Geopolitics

Isti Marta Sukma

Doctoral researcher in Political Science at the University of Warsaw, working at the intersection of political theory and computational comparative policy. Developing techno-realism as a framework for understanding how power, strategic competition and governance are reshaped through technology, digital regulation and infrastructure.

Isti Marta Sukma

Focus

Core research areas

Governance

AI governance across the United States, China, EU and Indo-Pacific; cybersecurity policy and governance; digital sovereignty and technological dependence.

Power & diffusion

Power in digital governance; geopolitics of infrastructure, platforms and standards; policy diffusion and regulatory fragmentation.

Theory

Techno-realism (forthcoming, Springer) and policy diffusion as the theoretical spine of ongoing doctoral research.

Approach

Methodology

Computational social science Text-as-data NLP · BERT / LLMs Critical discourse analysis Machine learning for policy Cross-national dataset design Qualitative & mixed methods

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Open to collaboration

I am open to scientific collaboration in cybersecurity, AI and tech governance in the Indo-Pacific and EU, as well as theoretical and methodological work in political science and IR. Send a query here.