Writing

Articles, reports, and case studies on AI governance, geopolitics, and international institutions.

Articles & Essays

• Shaping AI From the Middle — New America, June 2026
• The New World Order Will Be More Dangerous — and More Cooperative — Bloomberg Opinion, Apr 2026
• From Bletchley to Bharat: Can Middle Powers Chart a Third Way in AI? — New America, Feb 2026
• Where Are the Moonshots? — Issues in Science and Technology, Jul 2025
• Big Tech’s Foreign Policy Takeover — Tech Policy Press, May 2025
• There’s a Reason BRICS Is the Hottest Multilateral Ticket in Town — World Politics Review, Jan 2025
• The Dangers of Imposing Global North Approaches to AI Governance on the Global South — Tech Policy Press, Sept 2024
• The New U.S. Digital Development Policy Is Missing Something — World Politics Review, Aug 2024
• The U.N. Is Still the Best Forum to Tackle AI Governance — World Politics Review, May 2024
• The Sun Is Setting on Indonesia’s Democratic Era — The New York Times, Feb 2024
• Epic Fail: How a Corporate Duopoly Ruined Skiing — Slate Magazine, Dec 2023
• Starlink and Sovereignty — New America, Dec 2023
• Minding the AI Power Gap — Tech Policy Press (with Patricia Gruver), Nov 2023
• Unlocking a Just AI Transition — New America, Oct 2023
• Democratic Governance for the Long Emergency — in Democracy in a Hotter Time, MIT Press (with Anne-Marie Slaughter and Ann Florini), Sept 2023
• AI and the Global South — Project Syndicate (with Robert Muggah and Gabriella Seiler), Mar 2023
• How the Green Transition Can Revitalize American Democracy — The Hill (with Hollie Russon Gilman and Ann Florini), Jan 2023
• Three Years Is Too Long to Wait for a Global Vaccine Rollout — Foreign Policy (with Rob Muggah, Kathrine Aguirre, and Anne-Marie Slaughter), Jun 2021
• Opening Up the Order: A More Inclusive International System — Foreign Affairs (with Anne-Marie Slaughter), Mar/Apr 2021
• America Can – and Should – Vaccinate the World — Foreign Affairs online (with Helene Gayle and Anne-Marie Slaughter), Mar 2021
• The Appeal of Joko Widodo — South China Morning Post Magazine, Apr 2019
• Can a Hotbed of Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines Reinvent Itself for Tourism? — The Daily Beast, Dec 2018
• The World of Webcraft: Using Networks Against Shadow Finance — The Washington Quarterly (with Anne-Marie Slaughter), Jun 2017
• Indonesia: A Legal Plot to Thwart Corruption Fight — The Diplomat, Mar 2014
• Dead End for Jakarta’s Jockeys — The Jakarta Post, Oct 2013

Reports

• Bridging the AI Governance Divide — T20 Policy Brief, G20 Brazil Presidency (with Robert Muggah and Gabriella Seiler), Aug 2024
• Complexity and Global AI Governance — White Paper of the Complexity and International Relations Study Group (with Simon Levin, et al.), Apr 2024
• Power and Governance in the Age of AI — New America (with Allison Stanger, Bruce Schneier, Sarah Myers West, Nazli Choucri, and Stephanie Forrest), Mar 2024
• Governing the Digital Future — New America Report (with Patricia Gruver), Oct 2023
• Governing Carbon Markets — NatureFinance Report (with Ann Florini), Apr 2022

Case Studies

• Restoring Order in the West Bank — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies (with Jennifer Widner and Tristan Dreisbach), Jun 2022
• All In: Vietnam’s War Against COVID-19 — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Jun 2021
• The Needs of the Many: Colombia Responds to COVID-19 — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Sept 2021
• Making the System Work: Germany Coordinates a Response to COVID-19 — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Oct 2021
• Sweden Defends Its Elections Against Disinformation — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Dec 2020
• Land Rights for the Untitled Poor: Testing a Business Model — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Jul 2021
• City Hall Embraces Early Childhood Development: Reaching an Underserved Population in Tel Aviv — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Aug 2019
• Critical But Not Urgent: Seattle Prepares for the Big One — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Oct 2019
• Best-Laid Plans: Ethiopia Aligns Health Care with National Goals — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Jan 2019
• Colombia Tries to Balance Health Needs and Fiscal Capacity — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Nov 2018
• The Sum of Its Parts: Coordinating Brazil’s Fight Against Corruption — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, Feb 2017
• Changing a Civil Service Culture: Reforming Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance — Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies, May 2016

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