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.
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