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Atsushi TAGO is Professor of International Politics at Waseda University’s School of Political Science and Economics (2018–), after having served as Professor and earlier Associate Professor at Kobe University (2007-2018). A University of Tokyo Ph.D. holder, he leads multiple JSPS grants on security, apology and experimental methods, sits on the editorial boards of Political Science Research & Methods and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and is a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
Education:
- Ph.D. (International Relations) University of Tokyo
Research interests revolve around three pillars: (1) Coalition politics & US foreign policy—why states join or quit US-led military operations, how UN approval affects public support, and when states invoke self-defence legally; (2) Inter-group apology and reconciliation—experimental studies on what makes political apologies acceptable to domestic and foreign audiences; (3) Media, threat perception and East Asian security—how pro-government bias in public vs private media shapes motivated reasoning, and how information on economic interdependence influences attitudes toward territorial disputes.
His recent articles (2020-2024) display a clear shift toward sophisticated survey- and conjoint-experiments that disentangle causal mechanisms of apology acceptance, audience costs, and media effects, while earlier work focused on large-N statistical studies of military coalitions, genocide onset and arms-export politics. Collectively the scholarship bridges international-security theory, political psychology and advanced quantitative methods.
Scientific awards:
- 2019 Waseda Research Award (High-Impact Researcher)
Grants & projects: Principal or Co-PI on eight ongoing JSPS KAKENHI grants (2020-2030) totaling hundreds of million yen, covering topics from group apology and survey-experiment methodology to comprehensive monetary/fiscal risk management in international relations.
Labs & teams: He heads an experimental-politics lab at Waseda that conducts survey, lab and conjoint experiments; collaborates with psychologists in the Interdisciplinary Empirical Studies on Group Apology project; and leads international collaborative modules with scholars in Europe, the US and across Asia.