Policy, Cyberspace, Data & Geopolitics
Isti Marta Sukma is a doctoral researcher in Political Science at the University of Warsaw. She works at the intersection of political theory and computational comparative policy, developing techno-realism as a theoretical framework for understanding how power, strategic competition, and governance are reshaped through technology, digital regulation, infrastructure, and policy.
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Core Research Areas
AI governance (United States, China, EU, Indo-Pacific)
Cybersecurity policy and governance
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 (BERT, LLMs)
Critical discourse analysis (CDA)
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
Building Cyber Policy Lab
Commissioning Editor, E-International Relations
Speaker, TEDxUniversityofWarsaw 2025
Associated Expert, WIIS Poland
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