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Nuno Morgado

Nuno Morgado is a political scientist, specialized in geopolitics with regional focus in the post-Soviet Space, Far East Asia, and South America. Currently, his research agenda is focused on state’s grand strategy through the comparison of capabilities, analysis of systemic constraints, and assessment of the role of power perceptions. He employs deductive research design, applying the model of neoclassical geopolitics to selected cases. Other than that, he is also developing AI tools for geopolitical analysis (LLM4Geopolitics). He is currently an Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Vienna, São Paulo, and West Virginia University, and a SPIRe-Affiliated Scholar (UCD). From 2013 until 2024 he was an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies and Foreign Policy at Charles University, Prague. His broad research interests include Geopolitical Analysis, IR theories, and Strategic Studies.

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Toine Paulissen

Toine Paulissen is a Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) PhD Fellow for Fundamental Research based at the KU Leuven. His research, under supervisor prof. dr. Bart Maddens and co-supervisor prof. dr. Steven Van Hecke, focuses on party behavior in referendum campaigns, particularly from a political finance perspective. Other research interests include comparative and European politics, digital campaigning, and campaign messaging. He obtained a Master in Western Literature, as well as a Master in Comparative and International Politics, from the KU Leuven, and is an alumnus of the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year multi-disciplinary, multi-university, and multi-locational policy and leadership course. At SPIRe, he will work with prof. dr. David Farrell and look to collaborate with other researchers from the Centre for Democracy Research as well as the Connected_Politics Lab.

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