Atsushi Tago

PRIO Global Fellow

Atsushi Tago
Atsushi Tago left PRIO in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Research Interests

  • ​Use of force
  • Coalitions and alliance networks
  • Multilateralism and international law
  • Conflict analysis
  • Scientific study on public diplomacy

Background

PRIO Global Fellow 2017-2022.

Atsushi Tago is a professor of International Relations at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University (Ph.D. in Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo, 2007). He is specialized in a scientific study of international politics. 

More specifically, he publishes articles on American use of force (e.g. "Determinants of multilateralism in US use of force: State of economy, election cycle, and divided government" Journal of Peace Research 42:5) and its coalition of the willing (e.g. "When Are Democratic Friends Unreliable? The Unilateral Withdrawal of Troops from the Coalition of the Willing'" Journal of Peace Research 46:2). He also has some works on nuclear proliferation and mass political killing.

Currently, he is a Principle Investigator of the project called CROP-IT (Collaborative Research on Political Information Transmission) funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and conducts scientific research on Public Diplomacy. His recent study with co-authors appeared in Political Communication ("To Denounce, or Not To Denounce: Survey Experiments on DiplomaticQuarrels"), which also turned into a Washington Post Monkey Cage article in 2016 ("Why Putin and Obama use fighting words when they don’t want to fight"). He was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow from 2017.

PRIO Departments

Historical

Publications

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=printable&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211379


All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Eck, Kristine; Sophia Hatz; Charles Crabtree & Atsushi Tago (2021) Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Online Surveillance, Journal of Politics 83(4): 1545–1558.
Ohtsubo, Yohsuke; Kazunori Inamasu; Shoko Kohama; Nobuhiro Mifune & Atsushi Tago (2020) Resistance to the six elements of political apologies: Who opposes which elements?, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pac0000456.
Mifune, Nobuhiro; Kazunori Inamasu; Shoko Kohama; Yohsuke Ohtsubo & Atsushi Tago (2019) Social dominance orientation as an obstacle to intergroup apology, PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211379.
Kobayashi, Tetsuro; Dani Madrid‐Morales; Yuki Asaba & Atsushi Tago (2019) Economic Downturns and Hardline Public Opinion, Social Science Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12719.
Asaba, Yuki; Kyu S. Hahn; Seulgi Jang; Tetsuro Kobayashi & Atsushi Tago (2018) 38 seconds above the 38th parallel: how short video clips produced by the US military can promote alignment despite antagonism between Japan and Korea, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. DOI: 10.1093/irap/lcy024: 1–21.
Tanaka, Seiki; Atsushi Tago & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (2017) Seeing the Lexus for the Olive Trees? Public Opinion, Economic Interdependence, and Interstate Conflict, International Interactions 43(3): 375–396.

Edited Volume

Kobayashi, Tetsuro; & Atsushi Tago, eds, (2021) Japanese Public Sentiment on South Korea: Popular Opinion and International Relations. Abingdon: Routledge. Routledge Focus.