The shifting global allegiances of the Visegrád countries in a time of war
The MOMENTUM project strives to forge the definitive account of the shifting global allegiances of the Visegrád countries in the post-war period (hence: V-SHIFT) by the most extensive data collection and analysis to date. It will systematically analyse multiple decades worth of textual sources to unearth the changing reception of global powers within domestic politics and media. It applies cutting-edge AI methodology to quantify and evaluate the presence of, and attitudes towards, global powers on the domestic policy agenda in V4 countries. V-SHIFT is a poltextLAB project, supported by MTA Lendület.

News
98 V-Shift posts · showing 6–10
- 14 March 2026
Miklós Sebők’s Presentation on Illiberal Gateway Cities at the University of ManchesterV-ShiftOn 13–14 March 2026, Miklós Sebők presented at the conference “Second Cold War Cities: Geopolitics and Urbanization in the 21st Century,” held at the University of Manchester. Sebők’s presentation was titled Illiberal Gateway Cities as Battlegrounds for Global… - 26 February 2026
“Agenda-setting studies in public policy” on AI published in Communication and ChangeV-ShiftA new study by Frank Baumgartner, Shaun Bevan and Miklós Sebők, titled “Agenda-setting studies in public policy: Origins, development, and new possibilities for coding in the age of AI”, has been published in the journal Communication and Change. The article r… - 19 February 2026
poltextLAB researchers on AI methods at LLM Workshop supported by the V-SHIFT Lendület projectV-Shift - 10 february 2026
Miklós Sebők’s presentation on AI and Illiberalism at the University of CataniaV-ShiftOn 10 February 2026, Miklós Sebők delivered a seminar at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, titled The AI-Supported Analysis of Political Regimes. Co-organised by the Jean Monnet Chair EuDARe and the Piaceri CRIDEM project,… - 28 January 2026
Miklós Sebők on the political impact of the Minneapolis events on 24.huV-ShiftOn 28 January 2026, Miklós Sebők commented to the Hungarian news outlet 24.hu on the political implications of a fatal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minneapolis. In his remarks, he addressed how the incident and the circulation of vide…
Invited Speaker Series
11 sessions — click to expand
- 2026-06-04Annelise Russell, Sean TheriaultRoundtable on the Politics of Information
- 2026-04-21Seth SchindlerGeopolitical Rivalry and the Future of Globalization
- 2025-12-09Nathalie NeptuneAn Integrated Geospatial–Policy Analysis of Forest Loss in Hungary
- 2025-10-02Nathalie NeptuneIntegrating Geospatial and Legislative Data on Forest Policy and Fire Management in Hungary
- 2025-02-25Gennadii IakovlevAffective Elite Polarization in European Parliamentary Speeches: A Novel Measurement Approach Using Large Language Models
- 2024-11-21Hubert PlisieckiBeyond the Black Box: Addressing Participant Bias in Machine Learning and Lexicon Models for Emotion Prediction from text
- 2024-10-17Jakub StauberThe Narratives of the War in Ukraine in Czech News Media
- 2024-06-18Sean TheriaultThe Policy Agendas of a Global Power: The Case of the Holy See
- 2024-05-21MA and PhD Student Presentations
- 2024-03-14Hajo BoomgaardenThe challenge of measuring disinformation
- 2023-09-28Aron BuzoganyCivil society in rougher neighborhoods
Workshops & conferences
9 events — click to expand
- 2026-04-238th Annual COMPTEXT Conference
- 2026-02-19Bratislava Methods Workshop — LLMs and Generative AI: Applications in Political Science, Public Policy, and Law
- 2025-04-247th Annual COMPTEXT Conference
- 2025-02-27GenAI Training
- 2025-02-14Prague Methods Workshop — LLMs and Generative AI: Advancing Policy Frame and Media Narrative Analysis
- 2024-11-212nd Budapest Methods Workshop — LLMs and Generative AI: Social Science Applications and Legal Aspects
- 2024-11-14Workshops for Ukraine
- 2024-05-02Annual COMPTEXT Conference — Amsterdam
- 2023-11-231st Budapest Methods Workshop — Studying CEE Politics in the Age of AI
Publications
V-SHIFT outputs are listed with every other publication on the full publication list.
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Funding
This research was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences under the Lendület (Momentum) Programme, grant no. LP2023-16/2023 (V-SHIFT research group), 2023–2028.
Principal Investigator
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poltextLAB AI Laboratory
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