Hiroto Sawada is a Ph.D. student in Politics at Princeton University. His research interests include: the political economy of armed conflict; third-party intervention/mediation in civil wars; alliance politics; deterrence theory; and formal modeling. He holds a B.A. in Policy Management (2013) and M.A.s in Media and Governance (2015) and Economics (2016) from Keio University. Prior to Princeton, he worked at the National Institute for Defense Studies (Ministry of Defense, Japan) as a research fellow, where he taught international relations to senior officers of the Self-Defense Forces.

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Sawada H (2023) The mercurial commitment: Revisiting the unintended consequences of military humanitarian intervention and anti-atrocity norms. Forthcoming at International Studies Quarterly. Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3522870.