Biography
Michal Parizek is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University, Prague, and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the EUI SPS Department. He is a work package lead in a Horizon Europe project ENSURED (2023–2026) and was the principal investigator of the project GLOWIN – Global Flows of Political Information (2021–2024).
His prime scholarly focus in recent years has been on the information the public in states around the world receives through news media about foreign affairs and global conflicts. In this research, he deploys large language models and generative AI to systematically map the media coverage and framing of world politics, using the unique new dataset of news media content from more than 180 countries developed in GLOWIN. Beyond this domain, his research has dealt with conflicts between states and the prospects of cooperation, including in international organizations, especially the UN and the World Trade Organization. He works both quantitatively (including text-as-data) and qualitatively (e.g., elite interviews).
The results of Michal Parizek’s research have been published in leading journals in International Relations, including International Studies Quarterly (2021), The Review of International Organizations (2025, 2021, 2017), Journal of European Public Policy (2024), New Political Economy (2018), and others. He is the author of Negotiations in the World Trade Organization: Design and Performance (2020, Routledge). At Charles University, he teaches courses on quantitative methods, large language models/text-as-data, on global Political Economy, and on international institutions.
Michal Parizek holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin (2016), he has studied at Charles University, at the University of Bath, and as a doctoral student he was a visiting researcher at Princeton University. In 2024, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich, and in 2019, a lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the winner of the 2014 ECPR Rudolf Wildenmann Prize. In 2026, he co-chaired the International Relations section at the inaugural conference of the European Political Science Society.