Measuring Taiwan’s Power and Resilience: Capabilities, Strategic Culture, and Geopolitical Agents amid Cognitive Warfare

YCAPS is happy to welcome Dr. Nuno Morgado and Dr. Takashi Hosoda for our next Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue for a discussion on their latest paper on Taiwan and how we can understand and measure its power and resilience through factors like capabilities and its strategic culture. This session offers an invaluable opportunity for policymakers, scholars, and enthusiasts to gain insights into the current geopolitical situation facing Taiwan. Dr. Nuno Morgado and Dr. Takashi Hosoda conducted their research on Taiwan as members of Geopolitical Frontiers; at the Future Potential Observatory headed by Prof. Zoltán Szantó.

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Speakers: Dr. Nuno Morgado is a political scientist, specializing in geopolitics with a regional focus in the post-Soviet Space, Far East Asia, and South America. Currently, his research agenda is focused on the 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 models to selected cases. He is also developing AI tools for geopolitical analysis (LLM4Geopolitics). He is currently an Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, and formerly a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Vienna, São Paulo, and West Virginia University. From 2013 until 2024 Dr. Morgado was an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies and Foreign Policy at Charles University, Prague.

Dr. Takashi Hosoda is a Japanese international political scientist and security studies scholar living in the Czech Republic. His research focuses are on China's Multi-domain warfare, Military-Civil fusion, Japan-European Maritime Security/Space Security Cooperation, Security observation of the Indo-Pacific theater including the East China Sea/South China Sea, as well as on possible Taiwan contingency.

Cost: Free of charge

Moderator: Dr. Stephen Nagy, YCAPS Director of Policy Studies.

Format: This event will be off-the-record. Questions are encouraged.

Registration: Required via this link