The Geopolitical Studies Club
Welcome to my website!
My name is Nuno Morgado. I am a strategist, a geopolitics and a foreign policy expert. I created this website with the objective of not only making my research known but also to spread traditional knowledge of the geopolitical approach to international relations.
Explore as you wish, and I hope it will be useful!
ABOUT ME
I am Nuno Morgado, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest. I specialized in Geopolitical Studies, and my research covers an eclectic range of fields connected to the discipline: theory and methodology in geopolitical studies, strategic studies, foreign policy analysis, diplomatic and military history.
Other Positions Held:
Adjunct Professor in Geopolitical Studies at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University in Prague;
External Associate Researcher, Department for Government and Public Policy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
Objectives
In these first decades of the 21st century, there is a pivotal problem at the Western University in the domain of International Relations. That problem is the hegemony of post-structural or post-positivist approaches (Gender Studies/Ideology, Postcolonial studies, Critical Theory, Neomarxism, etc.) and the subsequent exclusion or silencing of the scientific approach.
This problem has many ramifications, such as the engagement of the lecturers and academics in political activism, or shaping the minds of students in certain ideological directions, instead of focusing on teaching and researching in the limits of the possible objectivity. Objectivity does not mean that the researcher does not have his own position but it means to include all the aspects of the question, in order to overcome the initial prejudices and subjectivity.
However, perhaps the most relevant consequence of this hegemony is the censorship over any approach with the slightest inch of positivism or structuralism. The scientific knowledge, the scientific method - the old approach - is dismissed more and more in programs, courses, university chairs, and so on.
My research on programs across the West (specifically in geopolitical studies) has been showing, and so did confirm my students’ complains for years, that the approach that this website aims to stimulate – the soft-positivist one – is missing everywhere. Not anymore. You can learn through it here.
MAKING THE DIFFERENCE IN THE FIELD
FEATURED COURSES
Geopolitics: History and Doctrines
The course has a double goal: theoretical and practical. Theoretical in the sense that familiarizes the students with the history of geopolitics and with several geopolitical doctrines. Practical since the students can apply the learned inputs to case studies of international political reality.
“Nuno Morgado appears to be quite mature in the nature of his research, a true scholar just beginning what will be a significant professional career…”
“... his dissertation that I believe takes the study and utility of geopolitics to a much higher level. For instance, he appears to have helped resolved a “levels of analysis” problem within academic international relations, that being, the problem of integrating the several layers of concern in the IR study – leadership, policy, decision-making, strategic.”
“Nuno has rather convincingly tied together not only the strategic and the policy-making but also the individual level being affected by her/his environment in making decisions. Quite an ambition, but at least Nuno is making the attempt.”
“I also applaud his attempts at both locating and clarifying theory, and then applying such theory to historic and contemporary events and policies. The latter case, to me, is the more difficult one, but Nuno does this adroitly. That accomplish bodes well for the field since it is one seldom done easily.”
Phil Kelly, Ph.D.
Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University, USA
(1) “Nuno Morgado has a rich international research experience in the field of theoretical geopolitics. His international publications are wide-ranging and unique in terms of theoretical renewal of the field of geopolitics. He has already won several prestigious international scholarships. His research topic is of paramount importance for the 21st century renewal of the geopolitics field… I see the scientific relevance of his research to make a significant contribution to the emergence of a "more independent" 21st century European geopolitics…”
(2) “Nuno Morgado’s scientific activity is impressive… He is familiar in Latin-American Issues and Central European-Eurasian Area, has a specific knowledge and experience researching geopolitics in maritime and continental environment.”
Two Anonymous Scholars, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
“One of the best current projects with extensive documented outcomes, both in the form of participation in expert discussions, conferences, and in the form of published or given foreign language studies. I recommend supporting the maximum extent possible…”
Experts of the Board of the Charles University Grant Agency About my PhD Thesis (research project 3762/2013)
Dr. Morgado's academic work is distinguished by his pioneering efforts to merge Neoclassical Realism with insights from Geopolitics. This unique approach has not only enriched the field but also will further provide new perspectives on understanding international relations. His research is characterized by a rigorous analytical framework and a deep understanding of geopolitical dynamics, making his contributions both valuable and impactful.
Prof. Dr. David Criekemans
Associate Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium
“Nuno Morgado is passionate about his discipline and, more generally, about many areas of knowledge. He is a person with great critical intelligence, a great capacity to listen, and great humbleness, a quality that I believe to be essential for a researcher. “Nuno Morgado advanced my own methodological framework by creating a multi-level model for geopolitical analysis, which introduced domestic political variables in the geopolitical approach – the geopolitical agent’s perceptions and capacities – apart from systematizing geopolitical factors.”
Aymeric Chauprade, Ph.D. Professor of Geopolitics, France