Nevo Spiegel

Nevo Spiegel is a PhD candidate at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He is a recipient of the Azrieli Graduate Studies Fellowship and the Rotenstreich Scholarship. He holds a BA (magna cum laude) in Philosophy and an LLB in Law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA (summa cum laude) in Philosophy of Science from Tel Aviv University. His research centers on political and legal theory, with particular emphasis on extending liberal political theory to questions of statehood, institutional design, and the regulation of political power under realist conditions. Alongside his academic work, he is a research fellow at the Molad Institute, an independent policy and ideas center for democratic renewal in Israel, where he works on questions of security, deterrence, and democratic backsliding in both theoretical and policy-oriented contexts. He is also an active public intellectual, publishing essays in Hebrew and English in venues such as Haaretz and Boston Review, and lecturing widely on political philosophy and democratic governance. His work aims to bridge rigorous political theory and public discourse by clarifying the philosophical foundations of contemporary democratic crises.