GTPF Research Published in New Feltrinelli Volume: Democracy on the Margins The Global TechnoPolitics Forum (GTPF) is pleased to announce the publication of new research by Pari Esfandiari in the edited volume Democrazia ai margini.…
Think again about China
By: Gregory Treverton - First Published in The Hill Even by the usual Washington standards, the current debate about China is remarkably caricatured. Indeed, it says more about us than about them, and, sadly, what…
Mark Zuckerberg, meet Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
BY JOHN WALCOTT, GREGORY F. TREVERTON, AND PARI ESFANDIARI First Published at The Hill In his dialogue, Phaedrus, the Greek philosopher Plato’s King Thamus argued that rather than aiding human memory, the Egyptian god Theuth’s gift…
Agenda for the Biden Administration
By: Gregory F. Treverton and Pari Esfandiari It is clear that the new Administration will be swamped in its first months by the urgent– trying to control the raging pandemic, distributing vaccines equitably, dealing with…
American Democracy Held
By PARI ESFANDIARI and GREGORY TREVERTON First published on December 31, 2020 in The Article Title: Fighting Covid and an Attempted Coup: The Shining Moments of 2020. This article was published prior to the Jan 6th…
Foreign Policy on the Home Front
By: John Walcott, Gregory F. Treverton, Pari Esfandiari Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for Secretary of State, has made restoring America’s relations with its allies a top priority. But in order to do that,…
Data: Governance and Geopolitics
Gregory F. Treverton and Pari Esfandiari Big data is often perceived as the black gold of the twenty-first century. Despite its fundamental differences with oil, it is indeed as critical, a fact tragically underscored by the lack of…
The Arctic Experience
A study by the Global TechnoPolitics Forum's associate Paul Ross In the last years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev deemed the Arctic, his country’s “extreme North,” a “Zone of Peace.” And so it has…
Viewing tech giants as a geopolitical force
BY GREGORY F. TREVERTON & PARI ESFANDIARI First Published in The Hill The rapid ascendance of a handful of tech startups to a giant, powerful independent geopolitical force not only has taken governments unprepared but…