Hiroto Sawada (2024) "The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-atrocity Norms." International Studies Quarterly 68(2): sqae023. Link | Preprint
Research
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Journal Articles
Working Papers
Hiroto Sawada (2026) "Natural Disasters, Asymmetric Vulnerability, and War: Why Empirical Evidence on the Climate-Conflict Nexus Seems Mixed." Job market paper. Submitted. Link | SSRN
Gaku Ito, Duc Tran, Hiroto Sawada, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, and Yuichiro Yoshida (2026) "Pain, Attitudes, and Behavior: Divergent Legacies of Herbicidal Warfare in Vietnam." Submitted. Link | SSRN
Selected Works in Progress
Hiroto Sawada "Climate Adaptation and War: How Investment in Disaster Preparedness Can Make Conflict More (or Less) Likely." Draft coming soon.
Raphael Boleslavsky, Kristopher W. Ramsay, Hiroto Sawada, and Mehdi Shadmehr "Commitment in Deterrence Strategies: Creating Audience Costs or Legislating Money Burning." Draft coming soon.
Hiroto Sawada "Climate Resilience and War: How Rapid Recovery from Disasters Can Backfire."
Gaku Ito, Duc Tran, Hiroto Sawada, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, and Yuichiro Yoshida "Norms, Attitudes, and Behavior in Post-Conflict Societies: Evidence from Vietnam."