How the West Shapes Russia’s LLMs Author: Jack Merrett When the non-profit American Sunlight Project (ASP) coined the term “LLMgrooming” in February 2025, they marked a new frontier in political warfare. ASPfound that a “pro-Russia…
Lebanon: Collapse!
Lebanon, which before its civil war stood as a symbol of what might go right in the Middle East, now stands as testimony to what can go wrong. It began to unravel in 2019, after…
Geopolitics of Internet Governance
Pari Esfandiari Speaking at the Virtual School of Internet Governance (VSIG)
Russian Cyber Swipes Expose U.S. Leadership Gap
By: Ronald A. Marks - First published at the Spy Talk Biden's new cyber czar slot threatens to add confusion to the top Sometime in early June, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee…
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…
Data: Governance and Geopolitics
By: Gregory Treverton & 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…
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…