Noah Najafi

Some puzzles can only be understood where fields overlap. The questions that matter most live between them. I write from where they converge.

Security & Statecraft

Defence, industry, and the institutions that turn one into the other.

PositionDefense · Technology · Economics · Governance Why Europe Imports Its Shield from Israel The continent that treated defence as commerce is buying its edge from the state that treated it as survival. 2026

Digital Regulation & Rights

Where platform business models meet the rights of the people using them.

ThesisTechnology · Society · Governance The Limits of Data Integration in AI Decision-Making Systems Why the ethical failures of AI data platforms are built into their architecture, not patched on after. 2026 PositionGovernance · Society · Economics Influencer Gambling: The Hidden Ads Raising a Generation of Bettors A co-regulatory case for closing the EU's influencer-marketing gap without touching free expression. 2025

Technology & Society

How digital tools reshape social life — and how social life shapes them back.

ResearchTechnology · Society Creeping Into the Conversation: How Smartphones Quietly Rewired Our Gatherings An ethnographic look at how friend groups quietly negotiate presence, distraction, and the phone on the table. 2026 ResearchTechnology · Society Technological Emergence: How to Tell a True Revolution from Hype A framework for telling revolutions from evolutions, and why most 'ICT revolutions' were neither. 2025