Policy, Cyberspace, Data & Geopolitics
Isti Marta Sukma is a doctoral researcher in Political Science at the University of Warsaw studying how power, strategic competition, and governance are reshaped through digital regulation, infrastructure, and policy.
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Core Research Areas
AI governance (US, China, EU, Indo-Pacific)
Cybersecurity as a strategic domain
Digital sovereignty and technological dependence
Power in digital governance
Geopolitics of infrastructure, platforms, and standards
Policy diffusion and regulatory fragmentation
Methodology
Computational social science (political science)
Text-as-data and large-scale policy analysis
NLP using transformer models (e.g., BERT, LLMs)
Machine learning for policy analysis
Cross-national dataset design and construction
Qualitative and mixed-methods research
Theoretical Work
Techno-Realism (forthcoming, Springer)
Policy diffusion (doctoral research)
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Public Engagement
Contributor to The Diplomat and Medium
Commissioning Editor at E-International Relations
TEDxUniversityofWarsaw 2025 Speaker
Associated Expert, WIIS Poland
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